NPR Music’s First Listen is now streaming the entirety of Steve Gunn’s magnificent new record. Also, some apt words from MOJO: “Way Out Weather motors slowly but powerfully, like some 70s muscle-car cruising lazy coast-roads, safe in the knowledge of its own killer torque.”
“Way Out Weather,” the title track off the new Steve Gunn album, “is a sun-dappled, easy highway song, the gleam of guitar pressing against the tarriness of Gunn’s voice,” as described by The Guardian. Shot while on a 1000K motorcycle trek through Mongolia in 2007, KT Auleta’s dreamlike video for “Way Out Weather” is a gorgeous, expansive visual accompaniment.
Nansemond, the cinematic new album by Nathan Bowles (Black Twig Pickers, Pelt, Steve Gunn, HGM), is now available for pre-order. Order now and get an immediate download of the song “Chuckatuck,” premiered today by NPR Music, who call it “hypnotic.”
Here at PoB, we’re big fans of Harvest Records in Asheville, NC, and so we are thrilled about their upcoming festival Transfigurations II, featuring Steve Gunn, Hiss Golden Messenger, and many other PoB pals. Join us for the festival of the summer this Labor Day weekend.
The follow-up to Steve Gunn’s critically acclaimed Time Off arrives on October 7. Pre-order the album now & stream first single “Milly’s Garden,” courtesy of NPR’s All Songs Considered. Confirmed tour dates include shows with The War on Drugs, Michael Chapman, & Mike Cooper. Plus, Time Off is now on sale!
Read recent critical accolades for Mike Cooper, Lavender Country, and Steve Gunn from Pitchfork, Aquarium Drunkard, BOMB, the Independent Weekly, the Chicago Reader, the Stranger, PopMatters, and more.
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Mike Cooper preorders are on their way to you now. Check out a preview of the packaging, as well as the forthcoming collaborative RVNG INTL record by Cooper and our main man Steve Gunn, from whom you shall be hearing more very, very soon.
A heady and elliptical travelogue, Way Out Weather demonstrates a radical widescreen evolution, featuring a larger band and lighting out for lusher, more expansive and impressionistic territories than Time Off (2013). This is the virtuosic guitarist and songwriter’s career-defining statement to date, a self-assured masterpiece.
Folks, these are two critical tours not to miss, and they start this week. Catch two of the greatest bands working today, in fine company, including Kurt Vile, Angel Olsen, William Tyler, etc. Stay tuned for more dates TBA.
