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Hello there!
The glorious day has arrived to share the sprawling wonder of Process and Reality - Gun Outfit’s astonishment of a sixth album!
Gun
Outfit is a long running lifestyle band out of Los Angeles, California.
For two decades the group has been making unclassifiable underground
rock music that strives to remain humble and true to life. Beginning as a
crude duo, they have solidified into a crack five piece; a post punk
band playing experimental folk rock with a local flavour.
The sound has grown mellower, more expansive and more intimate in response to the schizophrenic environment in which we live.
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Process and Reality
is Gun Outfit's most ambitious record yet. Self-recorded over the
course of a month on a ranch in Pine Flat, California while a forest
fire burned ten miles away, the album is an apocalyptic improvisation on
a passing world. A series of sonic landscapes and a set of discrete and
inviting songs,
Process and Reality is a
maelstrom of vibe grounded by lyrical engagement and limited means.
Dulcimer, autoharp, keyboard, melodica, sitar and a variety of other
instruments in novel arrangements widen the sound, a collaborative
approach to songwriting broadens the emotional scope and intuitive
mixing and a commitment to analogue gear gives the production a subtle
mystical resonance.
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Principle songwriters Dylan Sharp and Carrie Keith grew up in rural Washington state, forming Gun Outfit in Olympia in 2006. Daniel Swire
has been drumming in the band since 2010; on this record he plays a
variety of other instruments as well. Multi-instrumentalist Henry Barnes
(of Amps For Christ) joined in 2015, but this record emphasizes his virtuosity on his homemade instruments and electronics. Kayla Cohen has been playing bass in the band since 2019. Other collaborators - Chris Cohen, Warren Lee, Danny Sasaki and others - have all left their mark on this majestic double LP.
“Taking the worldly wisdom of heartland rock and infusing it with cosmic acceptance”
8/10 UNCUT
“A dreamtime of reverb-drenched echoes of Grouper, Neil Young and Bardo Pond”
* * * * MOJO
“Gun Outfit’s answer to Zen Arcade and Double Nickels On The Dime”
THE WIRE
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Alright! Upset The Rhythm also have an amazing live show on the horizon.
Next Wednesday at New River Studios we're beside ourselves to host Cincinnati new wave pop sensations Artificial Go! They're literally the most catchy, fun band going, plus we have excellent Feel It Records labelmates No Peeling coming down from Nottingham to shake things wildly up too. Tickets are £10 in advance or on the door, see you very much there!
Read on for all the specifics. You'll also find newly added shows for Carla dal Forno, Jake Xerxes Fussell, EarthBall and R.M.F.C. in our listings section.
Upset The Rhythm are also getting ready to partake in the always >F>U>N> and (hopefully sun-blessed) Independent Label Market
this Saturday at Coal Drops Yard. We'll have lots of new and
forthcoming releases with us, tons of back catalogue gems and some
vanishingly rare warehouse finds! See you there from 11am - 6.30pm, do
stop by and say hello!
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Upset The Rhythm presents… ARTIFICIAL GO
NO PEELINGWednesday 13 May New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/P1af2a986141ARTIFICIAL GO
hail from Cincinnati, USA, and bring the beat to life with their New /
No / Whatever Wave weirdness! Last year they released ‘Musical Chairs’,
building on 2024’s 'Hopscotch Fever', an album of ten existential
post-punk chamber pop tracks. Recorded at Lambda Research and the
haunted attic of the band’s house, the core trio of Angie Willcutt,
Micah Wu, and Cole Gilfilen have traded the sparse jangle of their debut
for a broader, fuller sound. ‘Musical Chairs’ deftly meshes the angular
excitability of 'Hopscotch Fever' with a spectral warmth and
expensiveness able to encompass acoustic guitars, Wu’s almost
metaphysical funk bass lines, tape loops and blips and bleeps, a guest
spot by Eric Dietrich (of The Drin and Sorry Eric) on saxophone, and
Gilfilen’s hip moving boom-bap drumming add to the excitement. In
Willcutt’s hands, the struggles, and at times terrors, of our current
age are playfully subverted with agile world play and dynamic
vocalization that moves from sweet and dreamy to cartoonishly
exaggerated as she charts an emotional course through such topics as the
difficulties of playing the role of “woman” in a misogynist world
(“Playing Puppet”) or the injustice of anthropocentric hierarchy
(“Tightrope Walker”). Musical Chairs is serious music not meant to be
taken too seriously, a playful act of resistance, a meditation on the
good and bad of this world, and ultimately a remarkable statement on the
continuing growth of Artificial Go. https://artificialgo.bandcamp.com/NO PEELING
formed in 2025 as a studio project by five friends in the fertile
Nottingham DIY underground. September 2025’s self-titled EP was the
perfect introduction to the No Peeling universe. Bandcamp Daily picked
it as an Essential Release, calling it “a clanging collection of
get-in-get-out egg punk that doesn’t ask for more than 10 minutes of
your time and overdelivers on every front”. It managed to cram a
lifetime of idea-nuggets into seven songs that rarely exceeded the
minute mark. A blast of enthusiasm and hyperactivity, the EP was the
audio equivalent of a barrage firework: exhilarating and energising.
Whilst the first EP was completed before the band had played live; the
forthcoming EP2 hits a little differently. EP2 has the garage
punk clatter and sparkly efficiency of their debut but is somehow faster
and weirder. The guitar and synth seem to be engaged in a constant
(playful) fight, tumbling further and further away from the song
structure being held together (and propelled) by one of the tightest
rhythm sections around. The scrawl and skronk might occasionally recall
No Wave but those grooves are locked down. This all provides the perfect
foundation for the wry, dry observations of Sophie Diver. From pasta
post and fluff-clad delinquents to clingfilm catastrophes and poor
working conditions, all modern life’s bases are covered and emerge
miraculously from a magic-eye explosion of clangs, thwacks and bloops. https://nopeeling.bandcamp.com/album/no-peeling |
Upset The Rhythm & Weird World presents... DISCOMBODURATION:
HEN OGLEDD joined by special guests! Saturday 6 June Horse Hospital, Colonnade, London, WC1N 1JD 2pm-10pm (8 hour set) | Free to all! | Just turn up on the day! HEN OGLEDD
are a Scottish-Welsh-Geordie-Lancashire-Australian supergroup. They
will be performing a special 8-hour sound-ritual in the most haunted and
wondrous locale of The Horse Hospital in Bloomsbury, London this early
summer. Splintering their latest album DISCOMBOBULATED through prisms of
drone, improvisation, dance, caterwauling, kinetic-sculpture,
befuddlement, squelching, dreamiest of dream-pop, ha-ha-harp, horrible
stuff, coo-ing and large blasts - this extended un-concert is bound to
be an immersive overwhelming experience and a pivotal moment in the
history of people having a nice time. DISCOMBODURATION explores
themes of collapse, persistence, and collective imagination. With
costume and a life(ish) size, pop up book set’ artist Rachael MacArthur
will bring forth a lucid psychogenic fantasy episodic landscape with
each stage of the performance. Hen Ogledd are exploring what it means to
perform through crisis, to dance, speak, and imagine within the ruins,
and to build, even temporarily, a space for a shared vision. Please join
us for DISCOMBODURATION on 6th June, in entirety from 2pm til 10pm, or
drop in as you please/at your own peril. https://www.henogledd.com/ |
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