“For those of you that don't know, Gomez won the Mercury Music Prize way back in 1998 for their debut release, *Bring It On*, and they've been the darlings of the British hype machine ever since. Considering how well blues-inspired rock of the Gomez variety seems to fare overseas, that probably shouldn't be a surprise, either. Not that there's anything fundamentally wrong with blues-rock. Last I ch”
