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    REDISCOVERED

    Jul 18, 2019 2 minutes
    NIGEL WILLIAMSON

    GOMEZ

    Liquid Skin UNIVERSAL

    8/10

    Fêted-then-forgotten Southport swamp bluesmen reappraised

    UNDERRATED? Overlooked? Hang on, you may say. Gomez’s 1998 debut Bring It On won the Mercury Prize, beating now-canonical albums by Massive Attack, Pulp and The Verve. The follow-up, 1999’s Liquid Skin, made No 2 and went platinum. The

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