WeWant2Wecord is a record label based in Caen, France that has developed from the music blog WeWant2Wigoler and with each year that passes it is steadily building both its roster and releases. 2013 sees six releases coming our way from old hands such as Tahiti 80 and Mehdi Zannad, but also less well known (although perhaps not for long) artists such as GOMINA. The Wiktionary tells me the name means ‘hair gel’.
The covers have all been done by hand but on closer inspection there are some really clever touches which means although they may have been cutting costs it has not cost them in quality. They look the real deal and come with plenty of stickerage and notage so you can follow what the label is up to. Good stuff.
Gomina are an indie pop band with baggy overtones. At times the singer sounds like he is stepping out of the Hacienda at 4AM having just played a set. He pulls the collar on his jacket up and heads for home, humming his own song as he goes. It’s uncanny really. Interestingly the band has no guitars and I love them all the more for this. It’s brave if nothing else, but it also posits them firmly in the indie pop sounds of now even while they hark back to the heady days of Madchester.
Let’s start with the B-side Ceremony. Reason being, if this single is not an AA then it sure as shit should be. This song is insanely catchy and is propelled along by a rubbery bassline. It opens with church organ and shooting star effects and then off we go. It seems to have about four choruses and even the instrumental ones are instantly hummable. It flies around your brain like 24 hour party people with no hangover. Or maybe a rocket in outer space? Or a shooting star across the sky at night.....this song has two gears, pop and POPPIER! It’s got the whoosh factor.
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Now for Everywhere, and by rights it should be. Everywhere just sits back and rides the groove. It has more clarity in the lyrics due to a slightly more distinct arrangement. It has more stops and starts and sparse breakdowns which means it jumps into the big sections even better. The lovely, daft keyboard melodies with three or four different sounds only add to its completeness.
“Well it seems so high, I am the dark horse/Vanished in the sky, money goes up in smoke.”
The rhythms are simple baggy swagger akin to early Stone Roses. “Everything has a price, just a game I love to play..........I need someone, it’s never enough though”. This is British indie with a twist. The twist being English as a second language sounding like a first? “Everywhere but the place I am. I could love you."
The band Gomina remind me of most is World Of Twist. They split up just as they were about to take over the world and we got ten years of Pulp instead. Funny how things turn out. I really hope this band stay together and fulfil the promise shown by this single. Any number of well known bands would be proud to release this and if so they would probably have a hit on their hands. Get on this train, it’s groovy.
WeWant2Wecord Bandcamp page
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