Gun Outfit Announces 2016 EU Tour.
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.
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Gun Outfit’s Dream All Over Scores an 8.1 from Pitchfork.
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.
The Fader Premieres Gun Outfit’s Dream All Over.
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.”
Noisey Premieres Gun Outfit’s “Worldly Way,” with Interview.
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.
Paste Magazine Is Streaming the New Promised Land Sound Album.
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 Reviewed by Uncut, MOJO, & Shindig.
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.
NPR Premieres Gun Outfit’s Prismatic Video for “Legends of My Own.”
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 Profiles Promised Land Sound, Premieres “Push and Pull (All the Time).”
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.”
Happy Release Day to James & Nathan + PoB in The New Yorker.
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!
Gun Outfit Share “Only Ever Over” via Stereogum.
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.”