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TEMPS

by GUMS!

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1.
Frame Story (I) 03:59
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2.
You Held Me 02:39
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3.
East Coast 03:38
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4.
Not One Day More 02:08
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5.
Once, Always, Almost 02:16
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6.
Irredeemable 04:39
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7.
We Used to Run Around 03:44
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8.
Why Does This Feel So New? 03:23
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9.
We Got Away 02:57
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10.
The Final Shot 04:38
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11.
Frame Story (II) 01:59
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12.
You Are Everything 04:41
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about

Function-suite romantics GUMS! are the project of veteran Glasgow songwriter Martin J. Smith. Over his two decades in music, Smith has built a reputation on mining the mundane and the miserable for unexpected gems of wistful pop. On TEMPS, Smith’s trademark literary flair and narrative focus are given room to be breathe over 12 tracks of essential indie.

Smith explains “With TEMPS I wanted to tell a story over a period of time. I focussed on the story of a relationship over the course of 15 years, the songwriting style and arrangement shift over the course of the album to highlight the passage of time and a growing sense of alienation.”

Early tracks such as You Held Me and Not One Day More use frantic indie punk, janglepop and doo-wop to tell giddy tales of teenage romance, while later tracks such as We Used To Run Around and Why Does This Feel So New? embrace a sparser and more electronic palette that l ends itself to darker explorations of isolation, ageing and regret.

The GUMS! sound is built around the interplay between the three vocalists, Nora Noonan’s casual, poppy tones providing the perfect counter-point to Smith’s “Scottish Leonard Cohen” delivery, with the intricate guitar work and soaring vocal melodies of Jack Taylor elevating the choruses to Teenage Fanclub-esque proportions.

Although the styles on display are wide-ranging, the sense of lyrical urgency and loss at core of the song-writing ensures that the tracks always complement each other, creating a series of inter-linked vignettes chronicling everyday life and love in Central Scotland. Raw and poignant in equal measure and sonically equally influenced by Eels, Kirsty MacColl and Pulp.

credits

released January 25, 2020

Martin Smith - Vocals
Jack Taylor - Guitar, Vocals
Nora Noonan - Vocals
Dave Gillies - Keyboard
Joe Greatorex - Bass
Tommy Duffin - Drums and Percussion

With

Cal Murray – Acoustic Guitars on 1,3,4,11
Finn Taylor – Percussion on “We Got Away”

Recorded early 2018/19 in 16 Ohm Studio, Glasgow (www.16ohm.co.uk)
Produced, Mixed etc by Tommy Duffin

Art by Adam Smith (baroquetopus.tumblr.com)

Songs written by Martin Smith, except “The Final Shot” by Jack Taylor and Martin Smith

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Function-suite romantics GUMS! are the project of veteran Glasgow songwriter Martin J. Smith. Over his two decades in music, Smith has built a reputation on mining the mundane and the miserable for unexpected gems of wistful pop.

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