Cat No: HF015CD
‘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. “There’s a lot of
subject matter in there that I’ve played with and maybe not managed to see through in the past.
I’ve evolved and I feel like I’ve got better at what I do”.
‘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’ (a nickname given to them by Nile Rodgers when they shared the bill at a Later
with Jools show) 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.
As he celebrates 10 years of his lauded solo career since the release of his debut ‘Here Come the
Bombs’, and riding a crest of the Supergrass reunion, the announcement of ‘Turn The Car Around’
solidifies Coombes status as one of the UK’s most interesting, enduring and effortlessly classy
artists.
1.Overnight Trains
2.Don’t Say It’s Over
3.Feel Loop (Lizard Dream)
4.Long Live The Strange
5.Not The Only Things
6.Turn The Car Around
7.This Love
8.Sonny The Strong
9.Dance On
Turn The Car Around
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