England's Gomez will return in May with In Our Gun, the quintet's third album. The group wrote the thirteen-song LP in a manor house in Gloucester and recorded at the Peter Gabriel-owned Real World Studios near Bath -- previously used by the Stereophonics and Kylie Minogue.

In Our Gun is Gomez's first album of new material since 1999's Liquid Skin, with only the rarities compilation Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline released since that time. As with their two previous albums, Gomez produced "In Our Gun" themselves. "Shot Shot" -- fueled by a chaotic blast of frenzied horns and rugged bass lines -- will be the album's first U.K. single. The U.S. single is yet to be determined.

The track listing for In Our Gun:

Shot Shot
Rex Kramer
Detroit Swing 66
In Our Gun
Even Song
Ruff Stuff
The Sound Of Sounds
Army Dub
Miles End
Ping One Down
1000 Times
Drench
Ballad of Nice & Easy

COLIN DEVENISH
(February 19, 2002)