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.
After sharing Ambsace opening song “Up of Stairs,” Elkington and Salsburg now offer up “Great Big God Of Hands” (named in honor of Nimrod Workman), debuted today via NPR Music, who describe the record as “playfully complex guitar work that sounds as if it was tossed off in an afternoon of whiskey and laughs.”
We’ve long admired the music of Cornish folk-rock collective Red River Dialect, the project of David Morris, so it’s a treat to announce our exclusive U.S. and Canadian distribution of a very limited number of LPs of their lovely new album Tender Gold and Gentle Blue (featuring Nathan Salsburg!), which you can pre-order in advance of the July 31 release date. Stream the album now via NPR Music, who call it “a quiet and desperate record.”
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.
