The best thing about Vadoinmessico is that they remind me of how amazing Gomez sounded back when they first came around and eventually won the Mercury Prize. At that time Gomez sounded like this was a band that had it all figured out: easy to listen tunes you'd relax to in a beach chair while some lovely tanned girl (not a woman, mind you) laid by your side and you sipped some fruity tropical drink and smoked a big fucking blunt full of some bomb kush. This was "get a little buzzed, a little high, and fuck lazily when you get back from the beach" music. Unfortunately Gomez never lived up to the promise of their first album, and instead gradually devolved into a band that made songs that sounded like they were trying way too hard to be friendly to American radio (to such an extent that their songs could be performed by Nickelback and not sound at all unusual).

Thankfully, London-based (with members from Mexico, Austria, and Italy) Vadoinmessico seems to pick up where Gomez failed horribly and mix it with a little bit of the typical indie-of-today flavor and give us a nice seven track EP full of lazy sunny-day driving music. In Spain wraps up the EP with arguably their best song so far, and you only really need to listen to it once to understand that this song is pretty damn good.

While you can buy the EP from Amazon by clicking on the album are above, I recommend you go to http://vadoinmessico.bandcamp.com/ and download it directly from the band themselves. You can even download it in FLAC from them, if you want, as well as a wide variety of other formats.

See, this is why you read staires_!_ because all those music blogs on Hype Machine don't know dick about shit. Or is that shit about dick? I don't know. Point is, I'm fucking awesome, and I've been doing this for well over a year now and no one gives a shit about me. That's the true badge of awesomeness, right there.