Gomez review – reformed post-Britpoppers prove prescient

Brighton Dome
Gomez’s psych, funk and electronics should be a mess, but on tour to celebrate the 20th-anniversary edition of their Mercury-winning debut it’s clear their songwriting really stands up
Gomez’s debut album Bring It On has had a curious afterlife. It was the most commercially successful iteration of a post-Britpop musical mood that also informed the Beta Band’s early EPs: a reaction to gloss and bombast involving a stoned melding of rootsy music with lo-fi ele