Gaz Coombes announces details of his forthcoming album, Turn The Car Around - out on 13 January on Hot Fruit Recordings/Virgin Music - alongside its accompanying new song ‘Don’t Say It’s Over’.
Based around a swirling, art-rock groove, the elegantly constructed song sees Coombes recalling the heady first night he met his future wife. As a taster of the masterfully written and recorded songs contained within Turn The Car Around, it’s a perfect reminder of exactly why Coombes remains one of the country’s most enduring and loved songwriters who continues to hone and develop this craft.
Talking of his new single, Coombes says: “When I wrote ‘Don’t Say It’s Over’ I had in mind wandering through some bustling holiday town at night, two people sharing strange and beautiful moments together. The feeling of love and all its complications. And the reality of a life without that love. It’s basically saying (albeit with a few dark edges) ‘my life is better with you in it’. I think this song is very much light and dark in equal measures. Those contradictions I find interesting & thought provoking…..and they make for cool, f*cked up love songs.”
Listen to ‘Don’t Say It’s Over’ by Gaz Coombes on the EFL Sounds Playlist on Spotify.
“Turn The Car Around is a record that I’ve been building up to for the last seven years”, says Coombes. It’s a record of feeling, an album that captures the ups and downs of modern life and all the small print in between. Written and recorded by Coombes in his gloriously ramshackle Oxfordshire outhouse Studio, he has emerged with the best work of his illustrious career.
It’s an album that both taps into the sonic palettes and lyrical themes of its predecessors and marks the third and final part of a trilogy of records alongside 2015’s Mercury and Ivor Novello nominated sophomore album Matador and 2018’s World’s Strongest Man. At the same time it carves a bold new way forward for one of the UK’s most gifted and cherished singer-songwriters.
Turn The Car Around features additional instrumentation from members of Gaz’s live band, Garo Nahoulakian, Nick Fowler and Piney Gir. The album also sees Coombes reuniting with his live band’s vocal trio “The Roxys” to create a rich and nuanced sonic tapestry. Cameo performances appear courtesy of Willie J Healey and Ride’s Loz Colbert, and Coombes shares co-production duties with long-term collaborator Ian Davenport.
Ahead of a full headline tour next year, Coombes and his band will be playing Turn The Car Around in its entirety with what promises to be a very special underplay show at London’s Lafayette on 3 November.
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