With his critically acclaimed singles “Book of Love” and “Broken Hands”, Melbourne's Fraser A. Gorman introduced listeners to his slanted and enchanted story. With the announce of his debut album 'Slow Gum', this story is taking ever more engrossing twists. A 23-year-old kid who looks like a teenage Bob Dylan, a part-time carpenter obsessed with the history of American rock n’ roll, expressing himself through wry poetry and bent country-roots. In his musical world heartfelt ballads take on a distinctly oddball twist; sultry Rhodes piano sits comfortably alongside heart-tugging twangs and nonchalant crooning, and influences such as the FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS and BILL CALLAHAN are all assimilated into an effortless, idiosyncratic whole.

Hailing originally from the beachside town of Torquay, south of Melbourne, Gorman immersed himself in the music of TOWNES VAN ZANDT, WILLIE NELSON, and HANK WILLIAMS, before moving and falling in with a group of like-minded musicians in the Melbourne alt-rock scene. One of them happened to be rapidly ascendant superstar Courtney Barnett – you might have spotted him in Barnett’s “Avant Gardener” video, or opening for her on recent shows – who immediately recited him as part of her notorious Milk! Records collective, fast becoming best pals. Like Barnett, he sings deceptively lackadaisical, ramshackle songs that are as beautiful as they are incisive, but forging his own unique path that's drawn as many comparisons to modern outsider folk heroes like CASS MCCOMBS than any of his childhood idols.
On his debut album Gorman builds on the promise of those earlier singles with a collection of cool, funny, heartfelt and super-infectious tunes tailor made for hazy summer nights and the milky morning hours. Gorman is an artist who connects directly with his listener, bringing laughter and tears, words of precocious wisdom and adolescent stupidity, ace lyrics and hot riffs. ‘Book Of Love’, with its warm, knowing chat up lines, is a skewed reinvisioning of Marvin Gaye's 'Lets Get It On'. Meanwhile, ‘Shiny Gun’ finds him pickin’ and stompin' à la Woody Guthrie, painting romantic images that resonate over sing-a-long choruses. ‘Broken Hands’ brings contrasting darkness and worry, but with no less uplifting results. By ‘Blossom & Snow’s harmonica-squawking sayonara, you feel locked into Fraser’s cosmically puzzled but mood elevating mindset. It’s a hilariously off-kilter world, but sexy, gorgeously arranged and oddly affecting with it, infused with timeless songcraft and outlaw country. Fall in love now.

Tracklisting
1. Big Old World
2. My Old Man
3. Book Of Love
4. Shiny Gun
5. Broken Hands
6. Mystic Mile
7. Never Gonna Hold You (Like I Do)
8. We’re All Alright
9. Dark Eyes
10. Blossom And Snow