Slow Gum
by Fraser A. Gorman
Metascore
70

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
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  1. 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]
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  2. New Musical Express (NME)
    Jun 26, 2015
    80
    A debut that breathes new life into old sounds.
  3. The Line of Best Fit
    Jul 10, 2015
    70
    It is such a thorough conglomeration of influences that it mostly manages to avoid sounding derivative.
  5. Consequence
    Jun 26, 2015
    67
    Gorman is a charming writer and performer, and Slow Gum is successful, but he doesn’t need to lean so hard on his influences.
  6. Rolling Stone
    Jul 29, 2015
    60
    Slow Gum is a promising beginning.
  7. The Guardian
    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.
  8. The Observer (UK)
    Jun 30, 2015
    60
    Derivative Gorman may be, but he’s also confident and distinctive with it.
  9. Clash Music
    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.

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