Fresh from celebrating the tenth anniversary of their Mercury Prize-winning debut Bring It On, Gomez return with a rebirth of careening, epic-sized and audacious indie rock on their highly anticipated new release A New Tide.

New project, their sixth, is said to be more "free-wheeling and experimental" than their solid selling 2006 release How We Operate, according to their label's sources, and lead track "Airstream Driver" would tend to back that description up. Kicking off with a rhythmic punch and king-sized riffs that echo Pete Townshend and Keith Moon, "Driver" has a raggedy looseness (is that a cowbell we hear?) and head-bobbing, classic retro-rock stomp.

Maybe it was the reaction to the more mainstream acceptance of the band once the album's title track was all over the '06 Grey's Anatomy finale. Maybe it's the band's Ben Ottewell and Ian Ball stretching out a bit more on the songwriting with early demos written separately before being recorded with producer Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Iron and Wine). But whatever the reason, the aptly titled A New Tide lifts the inventive British bad to a decisive new level of attention.

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