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GUN OUTFIT – ” Out of Range “

Posted: November 19, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Punks gone country. They take all kinds of forms: lightning-fast thrashgrass band. Gravel-throated, neck-tattooed troubadour. Social D-indebted twang-rock hybrid. Gun Outfit are from the West, but they take a different—and unique—angle on this concept. As always, the band’s sound on Out of Range is driven by the languid voices and lysergic guitar playing of Dylan Sharp and Carrie Keith, who trade off both duties throughout. Vocally, Sharp speak-sings a la Lou Reed (or, more precisely, Silver Jews’ David Berman), while Keith’s spectral intonation gives these songs a needed leavening agent. Their guitars both seem permanently set somewhere between jangle and jam, with the distortion turned down and clean tones as far as the eye can see

Like a stone eroded by years in the arroyo, Gun Outfit’s enveloping “Western expanse” aesthetic of guitar levitations and honky-tonk hexes has become gradually smoother over time. Their fifth LP ranks as their most brutally beautiful statement yet. Drawing from mythologies both classical and postmodern, Out of Range builds a world in which Brueghel the Elder, St. Augustine, and the ancient goddess Cybele ride with John Ford, Samuel Beckett, and Wallace Stevens on a Orphic-Gnostic suicide drive towards the hallucinatory vanishing points of the Southwestern desert, debating the denouement of the decaying American dream. Dreamers wielding slide guitars. A tradition-warping band, with a punk aesthetic deep at the center and double-guitar desert-rock psychedelia at the surface. ­– The New York Times With its echoing grooves, drifting landscapes, and new textures—bits of bluegrass banjo, homemade electric sitars—it has the blue-sky sensibility of a soul-searching road trip. You want to get lost inside of it, to turn it up on a road trip that lasts for weeks. Expansive, arid, and dusty.

Gun Outfit’s “Out of Range” is out November. 10th, 2017 on Paradise of Bachelors.

GUN OUTFIT – ” Dream All Over “

Posted: December 4, 2015 in MUSIC
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Gun Outfit is an “underground” group (say it is relatively unknown even though he’s lived) of the American coast that is in rock (punk with sediment and sometimes country) that evokes the open spaces of the continent North American, the desert in this case. Shaking road pictures, sun, dust and drug abuse. It’s cool to the bone, starting with the guitars, which are tasty. Formed in the State of Washington (important focus of the indie-rock), one can quite understand why members reside in California today. The voice of Dylan Sharp and Keith Carrie complement each other well, even if we feel that the singer a lot more than its counterpart fleet! Since its inception, the group combines the good albums and the new (fourth long game) Dream All Over, due out October 16th via Paradise of Bachelors, does not seem to be an exception. Some compare to Gun Outfit Velvet Underground, Mazzy Star, Sonic Youth, Idaho while others evoke Grateful Dead and Kurt Vile. Certainly, it’s an album that glorifies THE freedom.

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.