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  • Summary: This is the debut full-length release for the Australian singer-songwriter.
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  1. Positive: 4 out of 8
  2. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. 80
    A debut that breathes new life into old sounds.
  2. Uncut
    Jun 26, 2015
    80
    A confident debut, a record that is greater still than the sum of its impressive parts. [Jul 2015, p.74]
  3. 70
    It is such a thorough conglomeration of influences that it mostly manages to avoid sounding derivative.
  4. Jun 26, 2015
    60
    It all feels a bit too calculated at times, though when he ventures into the realms of floral Kinks-y psych pop on 'Mystic Mile' or the slack Beach-Boys-via-Mac-Demarco style surf of 'Never Gonna Hold You Like I Do', there's a promising glimmer of the discrete and intrepid artist he could be.
  5. Jun 30, 2015
    60
    Derivative Gorman may be, but he’s also confident and distinctive with it.
  6. Jul 29, 2015
    60
    Slow Gum is a promising beginning.
  7. Jul 2, 2015
    60
    It all starts to falter a little when the songs start to bleed into each other’s comforting, sunshine-peaking-through-gossamer textures--a change of pace wouldn’t have gone amiss.

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