This is an album that presents vulnerability, the admission of flaws and emotional openness as routes to strength.
Though in lesser hands such eclecticism may have felt forced and disjointed, here it’s nothing short of excellent.
It's clear that World's Strongest Man is Coombes' boldest musical statement to date with each song overflowing with hooks and melodies.
With more swagger and power than anything released in his career so far, ‘World’s Strongest Man’ is the perfect snapshot of a creative leader in full stride, and one of the most interesting and infectious record of the year because of it.
This is a highly accomplished and deeply felt third album to add to an already auspicious Gaz Coombes canon. He is on fine form at the moment, undoubtedly one of Britpop’s Strongest Men.
World's Strongest Man is a winning combination of the familiar and the peculiar and is worth a listen for fans of nuanced pop rock with seductive grooves.
‘World’s Strongest Man’ is a veritable melting pot of genre-bending songs.
It's a mature modern album, one filled with questions but also curiously settled, a combination that makes World's Strongest Man more rewarding with each listen.
Gaz’s third solo offering continues to find him moving into his next phase with real class.
Oh yeah, what a nice album!
This is the only full album I've heard from Gaz Coombes, but it stands as something I've heard so many times but never bored me, only grew on me more. Considering this is from the guy who wrote Alright as well! (Not to knock Supergrass, this just doesn't feel like something they'd make as a group idk why)
I think the key to this is how much textural stuff there is on this record - there are little brash blocks of electric guitar here and there, sure, but there's ... read more
1 | World’s Strongest Man 3:28 | |
2 | Deep Pockets 3:50 | |
3 | Walk the Walk 3:56 | |
4 | Shit (I’ve Done It Again) 2:58 | |
5 | Slow Motion Life 4:27 | |
6 | Wounded Egos 4:08 | |
7 | Oxygen Mask 4:09 | |
8 | In Waves 2:53 | |
9 | The Oaks 4:39 | |
10 | Vanishing Act 2:50 | |
11 | Weird Dreams 4:53 |
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#29 | / | Q Magazine |
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#93 | / | Rough Trade |
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