Gomez
Split The Difference

THE REVIEW

It was hard to imagine, perhaps in light of the inevitability of the saying "...sometimes they come back...", probably because the well-done "In Our Gun" (2002) had definitively misled the traces of the beginnings. For these reasons, and particularly the second one, it might have appeared beyond any expectation that Split The Difference, the fourth official work of the Gomez, would be the most immediate and energy-laden chapter of their career.
Recently someone wrote that the "Gomez stones don't roll, they dance" and such rambling can only be confirmed by tracks like "Nothing Is Wrong", the formidable "Catch Me Up", or the Beatlesque "These 3 Sins" and "Silence" with a McCartney-like bass.

Beware because this latter statement does not mean that the Gomez played at being the Beatles as one might think: they simply achieved their artistic maturity, benefiting from the teachings of excellent masters and the supervision of the wise Tchad Blake.
With that premise, here is explained the pleasant sensation of musical completeness that pervades the listener every time they play "Sweet Virginia" or the beautiful "There It Was", along with all the other tracks not mentioned because they can simply be declared "Gomezzian"; because the perfect balance between rhythm and melody of the Fab Four relives a new fantastic chapter precisely in this album that gives many of those emotions now unknown to contemporary rock.