We have another record to announce, and it’s an aptly titled one for the final official PoB release of 2015: Dream All Over, by the great guitar band Gun Outfit, whom we’re thrilled to welcome to Paradise. Thanks to The Fader for premiering “Gotta Wanna,” the lead track off their most refined and ruefully elegant album.
Nashville’s finest purveyors of febrile root-work psychedelia have returned with a dizzyingly accomplished second album that highlights an expanded band; bigger, bolder arrangements featuring more and louder guitars, squally strings, and Steve Gunn; and road-ripened songwriting that veers between the frenetic and tender. Pre-order now and stream single “She Takes Me There” via NPR, and catch the band on tour with Natalie Prass in October.
The second album of astonishing duets by guitarists James Elkington (who has toured and/or recorded with Jeff Tweedy, Richard Thompson, and Steve Gunn, among others) and Nathan Salsburg (accompanist to Joan Shelley and an accomplished soloist deemed by NPR “one of those names we’ll all associate with American folk guitar”) is a sublime suite of nimble, filigreed compositions by two singular stylists. Stream “Up of Stairs” via Paste and pre-order today.
On their most refined and ruefully elegant album, Gun Outfit perfect their incandescent sonic signature: a dusky, canyon-cult blues fueled by melodic dual-guitar weaving and seductive male/female incantations at zero hour. It’s the nocturnal sound of desert-damaged L.A. burnout, a soured American surrealism in rock and roll creole: white line fever, paint fume flashbacks, a stranger wading out alone into the black surf. Feat. Henry Barnes of Man Is the Bastard/Amps for Christ.
Thanks to our friends at Stereogum for offering an album stream premiere of Nap Eyes’ Whine of the Mystic, a record that continues to blow minds, including ours, with its gnomic lyrics and crystalline melodies. It’s a highly recommended tonic for nursing your Canada Day hangover or gearing up for your Fourth of July party.
We’re thrilled to welcome Gun Outfit to our Paradise of Bachelors family. Last year, we were fortunate to see the band play with Lavender Country in Los Angeles; our ears were treated to a set of burned, dual-guitar elegance beautifully evolved from the great Possession Sound and Hard Coming Down LPs. We’re so honored to be in cahoots. There’s a new album and it’s a stunner; we’ll share more info on that very soon. In the meantime, Gun Outfit heads to Brooklyn to play the Northside Festival this week.
Nashville’s finest purveyors of febrile root-work psychedelia return with a dizzyingly accomplished second album that highlights an expanded band; bigger, bolder arrangements featuring more and louder guitars, squally strings, and Steve Gunn; and road-ripened songwriting that veers between the frenetic and tender, recalling Jim Ford, the Pretty Things, the Grateful Dead, Dennis Linde, and the Byrds at their most eight-miles-fried.
The second album of astonishing duets by guitarists James Elkington (who has toured and/or recorded with Jeff Tweedy, Richard Thompson, and Steve Gunn, among others) and Nathan Salsburg (an accomplished soloist deemed by NPR “one of those names we’ll all associate with American folk guitar”) is a sublime suite of nimble, filigreed compositions by two singular stylists.
Hailing from Nova Scotia, Nap Eyes is the greatest band you’ve never heard, and Whine of the Mystic is their first full-length album, a brilliant small-batch brew of crooked, literate guitar pop refracted through the gray Halifax rain. Pre-orders now, and get an immediate download of the song “Dark Creedence,” as premiered today by Stereogum.
Today is a good day. Today we’re able to release two beautiful documents of deeply personal, movingly articulated North American songwriting: The Weather Station’s Loyalty and Kenny Knight’s Crossroads, which also happen to be our first releases with our supremely supportive new distributor Secretly Canadian Distribution. This is why we do what we do.
