Gaz Coombes, Turn The Car Around

It's been thirteen years since Supergrass split and Gaz Coombes, it's lead singer and guitarist, stepped out as solo artist. He has said that he did not leave the band to go solo. He left because he was not enjoying it and it no longer made him happy. He needed to get himself happy. As a solo artist, Coombes could simply do whatever made him feel good.

But feeling good and being completely open and honest about the ups and downs of life don't necessarily go together. On Turn The Car Around, his forth solo album and first in four years, Coombes' songs finally tackle a lot of subject matter that he says that he's played with and maybe not managed to see through in the past. It's what he's hoped for all along as a solo artist. The idea of evolving through a creative world. 

"I feel like there’s too much to explore to stay still. And all of those experiences I’ve had through my personal life, whether it’s having kids, personal tragedies or incredible moments, this feels like the place to process all that and put it into something.” 

Turn The Car Around plays out like snapshots of Coombes life and headspace over the past few years with musical tones and expressions that are sonically on a different plain than on his past recordings. There is something grand to these songs and this album. It all made me feel good. And I guess that's Coombes whole point.