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You have to feel a little bit sorry for blues-loving, Mercury-Prize-winning indie Brit-rockers Gomez. Following the gargantuan success of their debut LP Bring It On in 1998, they've consistently failed to recapture the same levels of hype and adoration, despite producing several albums' worth of innovative, charming and genuinely atmospheric songs. Whether works like Liquid Skin, In Our Gun and Split the Difference are weaker than Bring It On, or whether they simply didn't get enough promotional oomph, is a debate fans and critics will enjoy for years to come. But Five Men in a Hut - a collectionmore… of the band's best singles, flipsides and unreleased tracks from their Virgin/Hut period - provides apologists with arguments aplenty. Not only is the anthology laboriously comprehensive (36 tracks, including their first single "78 Stone Wobble", career highlights "Whipping Piccadilly" and "Get Myself Arrested" plus unreleased tracks "Old China" and "Diskoloadout") - it's also surprisingly listenable. While only an obsessive would sit through both CDs in one go - this is a quintet whose languorous leanings can be narcoleptic, after all - there's just enough magic on each disc to redeem their reputation as enigmatic troubadours par excellence.--Paul Sullivan

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CD

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Retail

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Gomez - Five Men in a Hut: A's B's and Rarities: 1998-2004 (2006) Retail CD

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CD 2

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