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GUN OUTFIT – ” Only Ever Over “

Posted: November 24, 2015 in MUSIC
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If Portland is where young people go to retire, then Olympia is where freaks go to do as much. Olympia is a strange, city Either way, that’s the ethos Gun Outfit was born out of, and that liminal space is where they exist, wherever they might move.

If Olympia is for freaks-in-retirement, then Gun Outfit are doing things backward by decamping to Los Angeles. Emerging from the slow sleepiness of the Northwest, in October they’ll release their first record outside of former No Age drummer Dean Spunt’s Northwest DIY label Post Present Medium. Gun Outfit are perhaps more fixedly involved in the capitalist market than ever before with the release of this fourth record Dream All Over. there’s few better choices in that realm than Paradise of Bachelors, who will release their latest album.

They’ve previously shared the tense transcendentalism of album opener “Gotta Wanna,” and today we’re premiering the closing track off the record, “Only Ever Over.” It’s postmodern malaise re-imagined as simple country dream poetry, languid and crawling with ennui. Dylan Sharp salutes his namesake with figure eight phrasing, and Carrie Keith’s dreamcatcher alto is always just around the corner, blowing on the coals of the chorus till they catch fire. “Out here on the West Coast / Where the ocean eats the sun,” Sharp drawls on the track, ensconcing our home coast’s power in the Pacific’s savage appetite. Sometimes that’s how the West Coast feels too, like it’s the end of the world, or like it’ll swallow all your days and stay hungry for more. Gun Outfit get that, and they’ve harnessed that zeal, slowed it down to a trickle of regret and lost time. When rock and roll is over, even when the dream really is all over, that coast will still be there. Stoic and weird as ever.

GUN OUTFIT – ” Gotta Wanna/Legends Of My Own “

Posted: November 24, 2015 in MUSIC
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The Olympia punks in Gun Outfit have stretched out and let their hair down, the band’s vibe has followed suit, getting looser with each record. Recorded just before the duo’s move to L.A.,Dream All Over is a dusty piece of good-time rock ‘n’ roll that just wants to hit the open road. That’s what appears to be the abstract narrative behind the video for “Legends Of My Own.”

While Dylan Sharp normally shares vocal and guitar duties with Carrie Keith, Keith takes the vocal lead here on a melody that recalls Kim Wilde’s “Kids In America.” As a figure in a black hat gets busted on a deal, she sings, “I looked familiar in a foreign land / I couldn’t speak, but I could understand / From another life I rode / Into a desert of my own,” like a drifter out to make the best of a bad situation.

Carrie Keith shot the L.A. scene on a “Super 8 under the influence of the black sun,” but from there, the story gets a little muddy:

Dececco came down with some silent concepts, and I had managed to acquire expired 16, so we shot with Mike Stoltz, and Nastassia plays the French shadow. I know Agnes Varda had been around, and she’s often on my mind anyway. Late fall I was in Washington and went for a ride out to the coast with David Harris and Alex in her Cadillac, where we shot the color Super 8; some details I took from Melville, like the hat and overcoat against a cold background. The Camaro came back from Wyoming — my brother had souped it up — and my dad was running it around town, so we shot the two cars on a bridge over where the deal goes down.

Dream All Over comes out October. 16th on Paradise Of Bachelors.