Check out “Worldly Way,” the new single from Gun Outfit, which features Henry Barnes, and read an interview with the band: “We’re not going to wear all wool and leather.” Preorder Dream All Over now or pick it up from your favorite merchant.
Promised Land Sound and Gun Outfit have are getting lots of love from the UK press lately, including the following 8/10 and 4/5 rave reviews and features from the fine folks at Uncut, MOJO, and Shindig.
Thanks to NPR First Watch and All Songs TV for premiering the prismatic, engimatic video for Gun Outfit’s “Legends of My Own,” from their forthcoming album Dream All Over. Echoes of Jean-Pierre Melville and Agnes Varda suffuse this mysterious dream-damaged heist narrative, which Gun Outfit guitarist, singer, and songwriter Carrie Keith shot entirely on film.
Thanks to Stereogum for sharing the wistful, jaded album closer from Gun Outfit’s Dream All Over, a a slow burner that begins with a proclamation that “Rock and roll is over / literature is done,” and ends with a glimmer of prehistoric hope: “So cup a little coal / Try to make it glow / We’re going to have a fire before we go.” Caitlin White describes it as “postmodern malaise re-imagined as simple country dream poetry, languid and crawling with ennui.”
Many thanks to Grayson Haver Currin of Pitchfork for his review of Gun Outfit’s “Gotta Wanna,” the lead track on their forthcoming record Dream All Over: “A song so simple but subtle you want to get lost inside of it, to turn it up on a road trip that lasts for weeks.” Plus, some kind words about the band and album from Ben Ratliff of The New York Times.
We have another record to announce, and it’s an aptly titled one for the final official PoB release of 2015: Dream All Over, by the great guitar band Gun Outfit, whom we’re thrilled to welcome to Paradise. Thanks to The Fader for premiering “Gotta Wanna,” the lead track off their most refined and ruefully elegant album.
On their most refined and ruefully elegant album, Gun Outfit perfect their incandescent sonic signature: a dusky, canyon-cult blues fueled by melodic dual-guitar weaving and seductive male/female incantations at zero hour. It’s the nocturnal sound of desert-damaged L.A. burnout, a soured American surrealism in rock and roll creole: white line fever, paint fume flashbacks, a stranger wading out alone into the black surf. Feat. Henry Barnes of Man Is the Bastard/Amps for Christ.
We’re thrilled to welcome Gun Outfit to our Paradise of Bachelors family. Last year, we were fortunate to see the band play with Lavender Country in Los Angeles; our ears were treated to a set of burned, dual-guitar elegance beautifully evolved from the great Possession Sound and Hard Coming Down LPs. We’re so honored to be in cahoots. There’s a new album and it’s a stunner; we’ll share more info on that very soon. In the meantime, Gun Outfit heads to Brooklyn to play the Northside Festival this week.
