{"id":8691,"date":"2026-02-10T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/gum-jay-watson-new-album\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:01:00","slug":"gum-jay-watson-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/gum-jay-watson-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"GUM\u2019s Jay Watson Nods To Jazz On \u2018Blue Gum Way\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2026\/02\/GUM-PRESS-JAN-2026-Photo-by-Kristofski-1-scaled.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2522\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>Jay Watson (photo: Kristofski).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tame Impala \/ Pond principal Jay Watson nods in the direction of jazz on his seventh album as GUM, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/gum.lnk.to\/bluegumway\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Gum Way<\/a><\/em>, which will be released March 6 on King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard\u2019s p(doom) label. Sample new song \u201cCelluloid\u201d and its Kristofski-directed video below.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything feels worse in the middle of the night,\u201d Australian native Watson says of the track. \u201cIt\u2019s where peak worry and catastrophizing happens \u2014 exacerbated by a slow death from blue screen light and brain rot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2026\/02\/tame-impala-dracula-jennie\/\">Tame Impala Enlivens \u2018Dracula\u2019 With JENNIE<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/10\/tame-impala-deadbeat-tour-debut\/\">Tame Impala Deliver \u2018Deadbeat\u2019 Debuts At Tour Opener<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/10\/tame-impala-sound-check\/\">Tame Impala Unveils New Tunes On \u2018Sound Check\u2019<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"V-MhzRLE41s\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Watson self-produced <em>Blue Gum Way<\/em>, which is the follow-up to 2023\u2019s <em>Saturnia<\/em> and his 2024 debut collaboration with King Gizzard\u2019s Ambrose Kenny Smith, <em>Ill Times<\/em>. He previously told SPIN of <em>Blue Gum Way<\/em> when it was in progress that it would be influenced by jazz \u2014 sort of. \u201cBecause I\u2019m not a jazz musician, it doesn\u2019t actually sound like jazz, but it\u2019s like my version of it,\u201d he said with a laugh. \u201cIt\u2019s just me doing the dishes every day while listening to Roy Ayers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A month after the release of the new album, Watson will be back on the road with Tame Impala, which kicks off an international tour April 4 in Porto, Portugal. In late 2025, the group played its first shows in Australia in three years.<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Watson (photo: Kristofski). Tame Impala \/ Pond principal Jay Watson nods in the direction of jazz on his seventh album as GUM, Blue Gum Way, which will be released&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5304,5305,1764,6,5306,784],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gum","category-jay-watson","category-king-gizzard-and-the-lizard-wizard","category-news","category-pond","category-tame-impala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}