Gaz Coombes

Former Supergrass frontman Gaz Coombes returns with fourth solo record Turn The Car Around. It's a record of feeling; an album that captures the ups and downs of modern life and all the small print in between. Across its nine tracks, it’s moving and emotional and uplifting and melancholic and funny and hopeful; an elegant rock record that takes in soulful ballads, baroque pop, wide-screen anthems and expansive epics. Tapping into the sonic palettes and lyrical themes of all three of its predecessors, Turn The Car Around completes an informal trilogy with the latter two; 2015’s Mercury and Ivor Novello nominated Matador and 2018’s World’s Strongest Man, but it also carves a new way forward for one of the UK’s most gifted and cherished singer-songwriters. Gaz wrote and recorded Turn The Car Around in parallel with fronting his old band Supergrass for a series of triumphant reunion shows, taking in London’s Alexandra Palace and a heady Glastonbury, which was watched from side of stage by Billie Eilish. Turn The Car Around has an ease of expression about it, a sense of an artist completely in tune with the music they want to make. It’s about where Gaz Coombes has been and where he’s heading, he’s an artist in the midst of a creative purple patch. “The one thing that has really nourished me in the last ten years is the idea of evolving as an artist, evolving my writing, to keep moving forward. I run on vibe. I always have.” The vibes have never been better.