Now out digitally via Matador Records / Remote Control Records, Steve Gunn’s Nakama EP features reinterpretations of six songs from the guitarist’s recent full-length, Other You, created with close friends. This includes new studio recordings made alongside Mikey Coltun and Ahmoudou Madassane of Mdou Moctar, and Natural Information Society, as well as remixes by Circuit des Yeux and Bing & Ruth. The artwork was shot and sequenced by American photographer Duane Michals. These are not covers, exactly. Nor are they full-blown from-the-ground-up collaborations. It’s a third path...
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Steve Gunn has released his new album, Other You, alongside the third single from the project, ‘Circuit Rider‘ on Matador Records / Remote Control Records. ‘Circuit Rider’ continues to highlight the expanded range and depth of Gunn’s voice on Other You, with nimble melody and rich harmonies, as well as his ever-versatile playing style with shimmering slide and acoustic guitar interplay. A featherlight touch coasts through the album – from the classical guitar and...
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Following the release of singles ‘Other You’ and ‘Reflection’, Steve Gunn has shared new single ‘Fulton’, taken from his forthcoming new album Other You, released August 27th on Matador / Remote Control Records. Gunn says of the song: “One night the air went dead on 1010 WINS, the local AM news station in NYC I find myself listening to from time to time. Everything stopped for a moment, or at least the radio signal did. The long silence came as a surprise, a gift.”...
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Other You is the sixth studio album by American singer Steve Gunn, out August 27 via Matador Records / Remote Control Records. Recorded during two visits to Los Angeles in late 2020 and early 2021, the album was made with veteran producer Rob Schnapf (Beck, Elliott Smith, Cass McCombs, Kurt Vile) at his Mant Studios alongside musician and longtime friend and collaborator Justin Tripp, whose credits include appearances on Gunn’s Time Off and Way Out Weather....
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Ever since Steve Gunn released his critically acclaimed fourth studio album Unseen In Between and follow-up Unseen Acoustic in 2019, we’ve been eagerly awaiting a new collection of songs from the prolific songwriter and guitarist. Happy to report that Steve Gunn has a new EP out titled Livin’ In Between featuring three cover songs released last year exclusively as an Amazon Original and ‘Aquarium Drunkard Lagniappe Session’ singles respectively, that...
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Perfume Genius shares another track from his collaborative music project The Sun Still Burns Here. ‘Pop Song‘ is a euphoric piece of orchestral chamber pop, elevated by another stunning vocal performance by Mike Hadreas. Listen here. Watch the video for previous single ‘Eye In The Wall.’ Ahead of next Friday’s album release, Lankum share a final single ‘The Young People.’ Another taste of The Livelong Day from the Irish...
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Tiny Ruins have released Olympic Girls Solo, an acoustic recording of the widely acclaimed third album through Milk! Records, Ba Da Bing Records and Marathon Artists. Featuring Hollie Fullbrook’s arresting vocals and intricate guitar playing, the solo recordings reflect the sparse beauty of her earliest work. The album features some of Fullbrook’s most accomplished songwriting, recorded onto tape in whole live takes at Auckland’s Roundhead Studios. To celebrate the release of Olympic Girls Solo, Hollie will return to Australia to join New York-based...
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Mistletone and Remote Control Records are proud to announce that Steve Gunn will return to Australia this November for a run of headline shows in Sydney, Brisbane, Hobart and Castlemaine, as well as appearances at Mullum Festival, Melbourne Music Week and Coalchella. For over a decade, Steve Gunn has been one of American music’s most pivotal figures — conjuring immersive and psychedelic sonic landscapes both live and on record, releasing...
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B Boys share ‘Pressure Inside,’ another track off their forthcoming album, Dudu. The song boasts the raucous, in-your-face energy of an angsty Parquet Courts cut. Over a tight, jittery guitar, they shout, “I’m always busy in my mind / Can’t think things through / It’s getting harder to breathe.” Dudu is out 26 July via Captured Tracks. Molly Burch has shared ‘Only One’ the A-Side to her Ballads...
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Steve Gunn today releases his breakthrough fourth album, The Unseen In Between, out now. On The Unseen In Between, Gunn explores his own emotional landscapes with his most complex, fully realised songs to date. Produced by frequent collaborator James Elkington and engineered by Daniel Schlett, the immaculately recorded Unseen forces a reassessment of Gunn’s standing in the pantheon of the era’s great songwriters. Getting to The Unseen In Between itself was...
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Following the release of singles ‘New Moon’ and ‘Stonehurst Cowboy’, Steve Gunn today shares a third song off of The Unseen In Between, out January 18. The gorgeous ‘Vagabond’ (named after Gunn’s favourite Agnes Varda film) and its accompanying video. Watch below! ‘Vagabond’ could almost be the soundtrack to a Denis Johnson short story or Sam Shepard play, with its rich cast of characters whose lives have gone astray. Accompanied...
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Steve Gunn has shared the second single ‘Stonehurst Cowboy’ from his upcoming album The Unseen In Between, out January 18. The accompanying acoustic video was shot in London and directed by Craig McNeil. Watch below! The song is the emotional centrepiece of the album, a duet between Gunn’s raw acoustic guitar and spare basslines by Bob Dylan’s musical director Tony Garnier who is featured throughout the album. The lyrics distill the lessons Gunn...
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Steve Gunn announces his fourth album The Unseen In Between, where he explores his own emotional landscapes with his most complex, fully realised songs to date. Today’s announcement comes with first single ‘New Moon’ and its accompanying lyric video. Watch below! ‘New Moon’ begins in the mode of a deep track with its upright bass and sparse tremolo guitar. But during the song’s final minutes, strings double the melody, and then...
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Brooklyn based singer-songwriter & guitarist Steve Gunn is coming to Australia for the first time on a soul expanding solo tour. He plays at The Basement in Sydney on Thursday July 6, NGV Friday Nights in Melbourne on Friday July 7, The Northcote Social Club in Melbourne on Saturday July 8, and The Junk Bar in Brisbane on Sunday July 9. Tickets and more info below! Gunn’s music has always embraced expanse and movement, springing from...
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Steve Gunn is set to release his Matador / Remote Control debut, Eyes On The Lines, on Friday 3 June. Inspired by dreams, the road and trusting the unknown, it’s Gunn’s most explicit ode to the blissful uncertainty of adventure yet. After presenting debut single, ‘Conditions Wild,’ Steve now shares the album’s opening song, ‘Ancient Jules,’ a rock ‘n’ roll number and travel fantasy of a different sort. Directed by...
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