Stream For Use and Delight in its entirety in advance of the October 2 release. MOJO describes the album as “redolent of a summer road trip from the hazy Memphis of Big Star and Jesse Winchester to the shining L.A. of Tom Petty, by turns plaintive and rocking, a wistful rhythmic journey into a band’s true beating heart.” Nashville, get to the release party at Fond Object!
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.
NPR’s World Cafe Next has profiled Promised Land Sound, premiering For Use and Delight album opener “Push and Pull (All the Time)”: “In the past, the group’s music has referenced Gram Parsons; now, you can also hear the influence of British psychedelic band The Pretty Things.”
Hot dice! Happy release day our friends James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg. In other news, we’re so flattered to be consulted and quoted in our friend Amanda Petrusich’s brilliant essay for The New Yorker on how record reissue culture reconfigures time. Check it out!
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.”
In advance of the September 18 release, stream the entirety of Ambsace and read Stereogum’s praises. It sounds like the end of summer. Plus, Richard Thompson–yes, that Richard Thompson–has some very nice things to say about James Elkington.
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.
Thanks to Stereogum for premiering “Reel Around the Fountain,” James and Nathan’s gorgeous, transformative Smiths cover. Read their thoughts on Johnny Marr, and check out October tour dates with Steve Gunn.
Thanks to Noisey for premiering “Otherworldly Pleasures,” the second single from Promised Land Sound’s For Use and Delight. Pre-order the album today, and mark your calendars for the October tour with Natalie Prass.
