Album Release Date April 14th 2008 From DallasObserver.com Robert Gomez began writing the songs for his newest record, Pine Sticks and Phosphorus, in July of 2007, during the downtime between gigs as he toured with fellow Denton-based act and Bella Union signee, Midlake. Gomez, a musician since age 6, says creating the arrangements and the "music side" of those songs came relatively easy for him. But the lyrics...well, that's another story. Back in Denton after the tour, Gomez spent the next year and a half reworking those songs and writing others, in preparation for this, his third full-length solo album. And when it came time to record, Gomez recruited a smattering of musicians, local and otherwise, to help: Centro-matic's Matt Pence co-produced and played drums on the album, which also features members of The Polyphonic Spree, The Theater Fire, Midlake, Blue Pedal and Postmarks. Completed in the fall of 2008, Gomez's Pine Sticks and Phosphorus should hit shelves next week. But, even after a year and a half, Gomez says, there wasn't any pivotal, EUREKA! moment that hit him when the album was done. "It was more like I needed to be done with it," Gomez says, "and I reached a point where I just had to let go and be done. But I was revising the songs right up until the very end." Unlike some singer-songwriters who spew forth their lyrics in a stream-of-consciousness style, Gomez says his songwriting process is "more arduous." "I revise and revise and revise them," he sa