Aussie singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jay Watson has a firmly established reputation for being both incredibly prolific and a highly-sought after collaborator:

• Watson is the creative mastermind behind the JOVM mainstay recording project GUM, with which he has written, recorded and released six albums, including 2020’s Out In The World and 2023’s Saturnia.
• Watson is also the co-founder and co-frontman of fellow JOVM mainstay act Pond, which has released 10 studio albums, including 2022’s 9 and last year’s Stung!
• Lastly, the wildly busy Aussie singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist is a touring member of acclaimed, JOVM mainstay Tame Impala‘s live, touring band.

With that massive, continually growing recorded output over the past decade-plus or so, Watson has treated listeners and fans to arguably some of the most sonically diverse and eclectic explorations of anyone in the contemporary music scene.

Watson recently signed to King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard‘s (p)doom records, who released the self-produced, standalone single “Expanding Blue,” the first bit of new material from the JOVM mainstay since Saturnia. The meditative, new single is one-part Nick Drake-inspired psych folk, one-part samba/jazz-fusion tune, anchored by a looping strummed acoustic figure and a sweetly romantic yearning — for a dear one, and for something much deeper, more spiritual.

“’Expanding Blue’ starts out as a jazz inspired meditation, and turns into something spiritual for me, like a lost gospel soul record or something,” the GUM creative mastermind says.

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s Ambrose Kenny-Smith adds, “Welcome back to the p(doom) fam my man Gumby! He’s done it again. Another stellar release from Freo’s finest.”