GUM & Ambrose Kenny-Smith – Ill Times

Format: Standard Black LP    
Catalogue No.: 2290159
Barcode: 0196922901591
Release Date: 19 Jul 2024
Genre: Rock

Keep It Simple (Recycled Black Wax Edition)

Co-founder of Pond and touring member of Tame Impala, Jay Watson, also makes music as GUM. “GUM is my brain, unfiltered,” Watson says. A labour of love and an exercise in joy, written and recorded with Ambrose Kenny-Smith, best known as the mesmeric harmonica-player, keyboardist and vocalist with King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and The Murlocs. The debut collaborative album between the two is a 10 track exploration into groove, blues and soul, deeply hypnotic from start to finish.

Ill Times is easily as much fun as the duo had making it, and that was ridiculous amounts of fun. “What’s so rewarding about making this album with Ambrose – him taking ideas that I’ve loved for so long, and making them exist in real life and sound as good as they did in my head, or even better.”

Side 1
1.    Dud
2.    Ill Times
3.    Minor Setback
4.    Fool For You
5.    Resilience

Side 2
1.    Powertrippn'
2.    Old Transistor Radio
3.    Emu Rock
4.    Marionette
5.    The Gloater