Ian Shelton has been going through it. The Militarie Gun frontman has written honestly about his vices and mental struggles before, but as the album artwork and title for “God Save the Gun” suggests, this new album was really his “come to Jesus” moment. Now, that’s not to say it’s about belief in organized religion or even the transcendental power of a spiritual community — instead, Shelton tracks his experience getting sober and the way it’s changed his outlook on life, cramming hook-filled power pop cuts with full-throated meditations on aging, fucking up, and rising above. It’s certainly the band at their most mature, though the excellent, haywire lead single “B A D I D E A” suggests that they’re still happy to turn up the volume and get a little reckless.
Miltarie Gun are gearing up for the release of their anticipated new album “God Save the Gun” and they’ve just shared its third single, “Throw Me Away.” It’s a catchy, anthemic, ’90s-style alt-rock song that Ian Shelton says is “about the feeling of only being valued when you’re visible or useful and the desperate need to hold onto that. What someone loves about you one day might be cited as a reason they hate you now. It’s the desire for external validation and also the deep resentment of it.”
Militarie Gun have lots of tour dates coming up, including a tiny Brooklyn show at Alphaville next week That show is one day before they play Chicago’s Riot Fest, and that will be followed by one leg of tour dates with Death Lens and Milly and then another with Liquid Mike and Public Opinion.
“God Save the Gun” drops 17th October via Loma Vista,
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