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Glamorous Damage

Spinning Top Music

Dec 31, 2015 Web Exclusive By Marty Hill Bookmark and Share


It’d be easy for Jay Watson’s solo project, GUM, to be dwarfed by his involvement with Australia’s psych-rock poster boys Pond and Tame Impala, easy, but not fair. The comparisons write themselves, but his second record under the moniker, Glamorous Damage, doesn’t attempt to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the grandiose acidity of his various other projects. Watson knows that his atmospheric, reflective songwriting has to be a modest constituent in any Pond record, but here his haziness doesn’t have to be chopped up and contextualized within a psych rock opus; for the most part he manages to downscale without downgrading. On “She Never Make to Tell,” winding, phasered synths near-mask a repetitious organ melody whereas “Television Sick” is more of an 8-Bit Nile Rodgers than a nauseous Tom Verlaine. Glamorous Damage doesn’t want to be cinematic or salient, and is all the more memorable for it. (www.spinningtopmusic.com)

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