Gun Outfit: Out of Range – “Sally Rose” (PoB-036, 2017) by Paradise of Bachelors
Gun Outfit’s “Out of Range" is out November 10, 2017 on Paradise of Bachelors.
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Like a stone eroded by years in the arroyo, Gun Outfit’s enveloping “Western expanse” aesthetic of guitar levitations and honky-tonk hexes has become insidiously smoother over time. Their fifth LP ranks as their most brutally beautiful statement yet. Drawing from mythologies both Classical and postmodern, Out of Range builds a world in which Brueghel the Elder, St. Augustine, and the ancient goddess Cybele ride with John Ford, Samuel Beckett, and Wallace Stevens on a Orphic-Gnostic suicide drive towards the hallucinatory vanishing points of the Southwestern desert, debating the denouement of the decaying American dream.
Dreamers wielding slide guitars. A tradition-warping band, with a punk aesthetic deep at the center and double-guitar desert-rock psychedelia at the surface. ¬– The New York Times
With its echoing grooves, drifting landscapes, and new textures—bits of bluegrass banjo, homemade electric sitars—it has the blue-sky sensibility of a soul-searching road trip. You want to get lost inside of it, to turn it up on a road trip that lasts for weeks. – Pitchfork
Peyote for the ears… Expansive, arid, and dusty. – Uncut
