Their quietly contemplative sophomore record offers an airier, more spacious second chapter, a bracing blast of bright oceanic sunshine. But the briny, cold Atlantic roils beneath these exquisite, literate guitar pop songs, posing riddles about friendship, faith, mortality, and self-doubt. Details on pre-orders and a Nap Eyes discount. “An existentialist indie pop daydream” – SPIN
Prepare thyselves, Europe. Gun Outfit is touring the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Germany, and Denmark in February and March 2016 to support their acclaimed album Dream All Over.
Recorded live to tape, with no overdubs, on the North Shore of Nova Scotia, Nap Eyes’ quietly contemplative sophomore record refines and elaborates their debut, offering an airier, more spacious second chapter, a bracing blast of bright oceanic sunshine after the moonlit alleys of Whine of the Mystic. But the briny, cold Atlantic roils beneath these exquisite, literate guitar pop songs, posing riddles about friendship, faith, mortality, and self-doubt.
Many thanks to Pitchfork and Jenn Pelly for the righteous and insightful review: “Dream All Over recalls the most crucial lesson of all underground rock music: become your own sound, and create a universe for it to exist in.” Now shipping in all formats.
Gun Outfit’s new album Dream All Over is now available to stream in full via The FADER ahead of its October 16th release. “It’s easy to get psychically lost in these songs: some are jaunty, some are more menacing, but they’re all perfectly designed for some long, ‘Vanishing Point’-esque car ride to nowhere along a clay-colored, distinctly American stretch of highway.”
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.
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.”
