Gun Outfit is a two-piece band born in Olympia, Washington but its core members Dylan Sharp and Carrie Keith have been bumming around LA for the past couple of years. Their new release Dream All Over reflects this change of scenery as every song is seeped in a surrealistic and filmy vibe. The band has always taken a wide-angled approach to music, gaining notice for their country-inflected last record Hard Coming Down. But Dream All Over is more focused on feeling cinematic. This expansive collection tunes plays like a post-party, pre-hangover wander under a freeway.
The band recorded Dream All Over with friend and mentor Henry Barnes (Amps for Christ/Man is Bastard) and it’s Barnes distinctive sitar-guitar lines throughout the record that add a warm…
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…yet weird psychedelic flavor to Keith and Sharp’s enmeshed guitars. The sitar-guitar is used to great effect on “Worldly Way”, a slice of bleached-out West Coast psych-folk that’s the highlight of Dream All Over. Sounding both defiant and defeated at the same time, Sharp demands answers from an indifferent world over a groove so sexy it’s doubly devastating, especially when he hits the listener with a bitter denouement: “Oh world, what wisdom do you teach? Console yourself with sadness, befriend your misery.”
01 Gotta Wanna [3:32]
02 Legends of My Own [2:23]
03 Matters to a Head [3:09]
04 Compromise [3:06]
05 Angelino [4:53]
06 Came to Be [2:32]
07 Scorpios Vegas [3:32]
08 Pass On Through [2:49]
09 In Orbit [3:07]
10 Blue Hour [3:35]
11 Worldly Way [3:42]
12 Only Ever Over [3:59]