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The Faintest Idea

by Jon Gomm

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df_lostsunset Thank you for another album Jon, it's also a big improvement in terms of quality of sound, really good! Favorite track: The Ghost Inside You.
wphilbin
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wphilbin What's NOT to love? Favorite track: Dream Factories.
tonepoet
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tonepoet Ridiculously great. Jon is a rare artist and exists as the symphony and choir to very monumental tapestries. Lyrically deep, musically fulfilling, and the standards of production and performance are absolutely unparalleled. Definitely music for people that like expressive art. As a guitarist, I'm embarrassed by my own lack of abilities and delivery compared to Jon! Easily a 10/10 release. Favorite track: Dream Factories.
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Dixon Tom Some of his best song that can actually compare with the passionate flower are here in this album. Well done Jon!
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1.
Loneliness is living When you're swimming in the gloom, Everywhere is silent, Nothing is ever new. An underwater comet, I fly so gracelessly, Open my eyes for a moment, Just to check I still can't see We are deep sea fishes Beautiful to nobody, We are navigating nowhere Blindly through infinity A single point of glowing, A beacon in the dark, The signal of the hunter, I carry the same mark. The distant shape is growing, A ghostly yellow light, O, water slowly flowing, Take me to my love tonight We are deep sea fishes Beautiful to nobody, We are navigating nowhere Blindly through infinity I hide myself from vision, My strange and twisted form, You see your own reflection, I see myself in yours. A fluttering of thermals Holds us warm and close, The things that seem eternal are the things that change the most. We are deep sea fishes Beautiful to only to we, We are navigating nowhere Together through infinity
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Cocoon 04:08
Wrap up her limbs so she can lie Spinning silk around her Watch her inhaling fireflies Illuminate her from inside Got to Cocoon her Construct A new womb for her But will I Teach her my fears If I try To protect her Unfurl her wings so they can dry Open to the sun I cannot bear to watch her fly Reduce my singing to a sigh Got to Cocoon her Construct A new womb for her But will I Teach her my fears If I try To protect her
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Don't wanna be nobody's idol, Don't got no X-factor inside me, Don't wanna be another wannabe, Or a production line facsimile, I see a single feather floating on a river, floating out to the sea They make our dreams in factories, So we don't aspire to what we can't achieve, So take your fire and take your belief, And burn, burn, burn, burn, Burn the factories down I live in a house built for a seamstress, I house with half a million Siamese twins, But now the seamstress lives in India, She makes us Che Guevara shirts to wear, She is a single feather floating on a river, floating out to the sea They make our dreams in factories, So we don't aspire to what we can't achieve, So take your fire and take your belief, And burn, burn, burn, burn, Burn the factories down
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Tempest 04:35
Bruised but forgiven, You talk like the world is against you, You're pulling yourself to pieces, But I'm never getting over you Oh, give it some thought before you fall Oh, think of yourself before you fall I was fading out, like a whisper in the wind, Wishing I was someone else, somewhere new, Sailing away with you I won't turn away As you sail away from the shore I'm a castaway I was dead and buried long before Oh, give it some thought before you fall Oh, think of yourself before you fall I won't turn away As you sail away from the shore I'm a castaway I was dead and buried long before
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I am a forest of buildings, I am a river of glass, I'm the impossible future In a dream from the past, You are a dancing tornado Taking back what I stole, You are a migrating species Rushing into my soul. This sound is a wave of particles vibrating, Universal biology, In unison we breathe it in, Universal biology, This idea was the rhythm of a string resonating, Universal biology, In unison we breathe it in, Universal biology You are the the unchanging season Captured frozen in clay, I am a fossil of reason Rising cloudy and grey, You are gravity reeling All my books off the shelf, I am the universe feeling, Experiencing itself. This sound is a wave of particles vibrating, Universal biology, In unison we breathe it in, Universal biology, This idea was the rhythm of a string resonating, Universal biology, In unison we breathe it in, Universal biology I am the fleeting expression Of the faintest idea, I am a flickering shadow, I am only just here, You are time everlasting, You are physical law, We are deities clashing In a frivolous war
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The rain falls harder than before you came, The rain falls harder now you've gone away I never knew you well, but I knew you more than most, You haunted my dreams like a lingering ghost, I wait to see you still walking down dark corridors The rain falls harder than before you came, The rain falls harder now you've gone away We had it in our hands, but we couldn't hold on, For I had seen you there, but when I turned you had gone, And all of everything was not enough for you The rain falls harder than before you came, The rain falls harder now you've gone away I bent my ears to hear all the stories that you told, You promised me beneath your sheets we'd never grow old, But like all empty words, you simply slipped away The rain falls harder than before you came, The rain falls harder now you've gone away All the things that you said were just lies in your bed, There are no monsters underneath cos they were all in your head, And the more that you take the less you get to keep
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Butterfly amplified into a hurricane And again it lifts me off my feet and blows my mind Follow the human herd against a spinning world Until it turns so fast they're walking past themselves Don't beat your wings in my direction A victim of unnatural selection That could be me Floating down Stand atop mountain high Shouting out "Why do I Have nothing at all to say, I crawl from day to day" Sticks and stones may bust up your bones But silence never leaves you alone And when I jump I'll be Floating down Kisses blown overflow into a hurricane And again it lifts me off my feet and blows my mind Don't beat your wings in my direction A victim of unnatural selection That could be me Floating down
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Will you be long Complete me fill me up I'm hollow, I meet myself and we follow our feet to where we can swallow you whole. Will you be long to me
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Oh woman, hush hush hush, Let this moment stabilise, Oh woman, hush hush hush No need to rush rush rush, Feel our orbits synchronise, Oh woman, hush hush hush You're reaching into me, A direct link to my insides, You're reaching in to me Don't mean a thing to me, I keep telling myself lies, Don't mean a thing to me And I will stretch this second Until the sun destroys the earth, I will extend expectance Until expansion is reversed, I'll take our dust and ashes Until a cloud of us is formed, And I will zoom into it Until a galaxy is born. I see you blush blush blush, As the blood begins to rise, I see you blush blush blush I feel the crush crush crush, You drag me down towards the sky, I feel the crush crush crush And you are all I hear, The air is rushing as I burn up in your atmosphere, I plunge into the sea, My life is flashing past my eyes And you are all I see And I will stretch this second Until the sun destroys the earth, I will extend expectance Until expansion is reversed, I'll take our dust and ashes Until a cloud of us is formed, And I will zoom into it Until a galaxy is born

about

Jon Gomm, the UK based acoustic guitar virtuoso, finds new emotional depths in immense melodic pop landscapes, with his new album The Faintest Idea.

When most people look at an acoustic guitar, they see exactly that – a wooden box with strings. As one of the pioneers of the modern fingerstyle sound, however, Jon Gomm has a rare gift for turning one instrument into what feels like an entire orchestra...

The Blackpool-born singer-songwriter’s 2003 home-recorded debut, Hypertension, was nothing short of a musical revelation: drumming beats, tapping chords and striking harmonics on his acoustic underneath that warm, soulful voice. Things changed for Jon when landmark single Passionflower racked up millions of views on YouTube and other media platforms in 2012 – with British legend Stephen Fry describing him on mainstream television as someone “playing the guitar in a way I’d never seen it played before” and “an all-round genius”. Follow up album Secrets Nobody Keeps arrived in 2013, further cementing his stature as one of the driving forces behind an acoustic revolution – but now, having signed a label deal for the very first time in his career, he’s managed to truly refine the pop sensibilities and emotive expression within that unmistakable wall of sound.

The Faintest Idea’s title is based on the notion that all of us, to some extent, are just The Faintest Idea, “It’s an enigmatic title,” smiles Gomm. “There’s a fine line between a metaphor and a pun, so I guess it dances on that” and explores the contrasts between the warmth of Gomm’s acoustic articulation with more icy affairs, thanks to the synth parts and production work from Australian musician Andy Sorenson, together they have created a contemporary masterpiece.

Often cited as one of the most naturally gifted acoustic artists of the modern age, Gomm drew inspiration from his own experiences over the last few years. And while there have been moments of joyous celebration, by his own admission there has also been plenty of personal upheaval: “This album has been a long time coming,” he reflects. “I tend to write in a really painstaking way. The last few years of my life have involved a lot of personal trauma – from me and my wife losing a pregnancy, through to losing other people in my life.”

The album is complemented by the delicate hand drawn pen and ink cover art created by Lee Zimmerman.

The Faintest Idea’s immersive and emotional 11 tracks sees a musician coming to terms with the talents that got him recognised and choosing to evolve into the unexpected and, despite having already gone viral and established himself as one of the modern-day masters of acoustic, this could very well be the release that sees the virtuoso transition to a mainstream audience, and it really just boils down to the magic of one man with his guitar and voice. And what a powerful magic it is.

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released October 16, 2020

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