This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Shame on you if you missed Bring It On, last year’s astonishing, award-winning debut disc from Gomez, a gaggle of young English lads who sound like old American bluesmen.
But here’s your chance to redeem yourself. The followup Liquid Skin picks up where the last disc left off, with the blokes summoning forth the spirits of decades of American rock and roots icons — including (but not limted to) CSNY, The Grateful Dead, The Band, Tom Waits and The Allman Brothers Band — and introducing them to the ghosts in today’s drum machines, effects and studio gizmos. From the rootsy funk of opener Hangover to the vocorder-and-horn-tinged midnight blues-jam of closing track Devil Will Ride, they make beautiful music together. Bring it home.
