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Q MagazineJun 20, 2012This 11 track-LP is bursting with energy and invention. [Jun 2012, p.99]
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May 21, 2012Here Come the Bombs is a rewarding and substantial offering.
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May 21, 2012Here Comes The Bombs is an impossibly refreshing new direction - the sound of a man revitalised and back on form.
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May 21, 2012With 'Here Come The Bombs', frontman Gaz Coombes does a surprisingly adept job of retaining [former band, Supergrass's] oddball pop sensibility, but shaping it into something that's, if not mature, then at least slightly less frivolously young and free.
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May 21, 2012A very impressive debut. The best thing about it is you get the sense he has only just started.
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May 21, 2012Here Come The Bombs' is fresh and stylish and marks Coombes' finest work in over a decade. A triumph.
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May 21, 2012'Here Come The Bombs' is a sublime first solo effort.
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May 29, 2012Call Here Come the Bombs a transitional album, one where Gaz is trying out everything he always wanted to do within Supergrass but never could, and next time around he may be able to synthesize all these sounds.
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MojoJul 18, 2012Not exactly left field, but on the right track. [Jun 2012, p.86]
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Jun 1, 2012Here Come the Bombs is a fine solo debut. Though it mostly makes you recall Coombes's previous heights and doesn't really add much of a new sound, his songwriting has always been good, fun, and catchy.
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UncutMay 22, 2012While some of these missiles find their target, he is back with less of a bang than he might have hoped. [Jun 2012, p.70]
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May 21, 2012Ultimately the riffs and hooks aren't up to the standard of previous Coombes-led outings, and whilst the textured soundscapes can help disguise this slightly the reality is that the majority of this record, whilst occasionally interesting and certainly surprising, is just ... a little boring.
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May 21, 2012His debut solo album is packed with [hooks you can hang a coat on.]