British guitar bands that offer more than expensive haircuts and fancy trousers can be a rare find. Enter North England's Gomez. Their 1998 debut, Bring it On, beat out the Verve's Urban Hymns and Massive Attack's Mezzanine (both fine albums in their own right) for the U.K.'s prestigious Mercury Music Prize Album Of The Year. Their music braids vines of organic roots music with strands of bubbly dance production, but their songs tend to stick closer to the soil ...  [+]