GUM releases "Would It Pain You To See?" and announces new album
GUM – AKA Jay Watson of Pond and touring member of Tame Impala – announces his new album, Saturnia.
Following the album's lead single "Race To The Air", today GUM also shares his new single "Would It Pain You To See?".
It comes alongside a mind-melting video created by Michael Hili, who also directed Flume’s "Say Nothing", who says: “Jay’s such a talent, you can feel his fingerprint on every part of the song, a true studio wizard. The inspiration for the video came from imagining Jay in his backyard studio piecing together the track. Deep into the process, time passes and shifts, characters materialise fully formed in costume playing the strings part Jay is writing in his mind. Somewhere in the wee hours insecurity creeps in and you can feel the eyes of a few demons and inspirations.”
“I wrote this in lockdown with my newborn son, on my Wurli. My songs are never really literal or with obvious meaning, but if I had to say what this one is about it would be the conflict of apathy and caring a lot about something, that’s inside all of us. It seems to be particularly confusing and crude in today’s day and age. I love the beautiful strings part played by Jesse Kotansky," says Watson.
Coming off the back of 2020’s Out In The World, Watson had a loose idea of where he wanted GUM to travel to next. “I really wanted to make a record that all sounded the same,” he recalls. “It would have different sounds on it, but I wanted it to feel organic and have acoustic guitars on there and real drums. Most of the GUM records haven’t actually had many real drums on them.”
Tracklist:
1. Race to the Air
2. Muscle Memory
3. Argentina
4. Would It Pain You to See?
5. Fear of Joy
6. Music Is Bigger Than Hair
7. Real Life
8. Saturnism
9. In a Glasshouse (With No Light)
10. It Lies a Lifetime
"Would It Pain You To See?" is out now. GUM's sixth studio album, Saturnia, arrives on 15 September via Spinning Top Records, and is available to pre-order.
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