UPSET THE RHYTHM: Gun Outfit and Amps For Christ in London tomorrow!

Afternoon all!

Just a quick reminder that tomorrow we’re exceptionally lucky to have both Gun Outfit and Amps For Christ playing for us in London. Gun Outfit were last over here six years ago and since then their evolving punk odysseys have rolled through the desert like tumbleweeds, spinning out into a particularly humid, cosmic country music. There’s grand sunset poetics at play, hushed folk cadences and campfire smoke clinging to your clothes, their music is wonderfully aglow with dreams and a focus on tomorrow’s horizon. Henry Barnes, as well as playing sitar/violin in Gun Outfit will also be performing as Amps For Christ, with his rapturous, electrified ruminations on folk ballads and broadsides. We’re beyond excited and hope you can join us at The Lexington from 7.30pm, we will have some tickets available on the door for £8 and you should expect things of a live music nature to commence around 8.30pm. Read on for everything and more…

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GUN OUTFIT

AMPS FOR CHRIST

Wednesday 17 February

The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB

7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/340160

GUN OUTFIT have an incandescent sonic signature: a dusky, canyon-cult blues fueled by melodic dual-guitar weaving and seductive male/female incantations. It’s the nocturnal sound of desert-damaged L.A. burnout, a soured American surrealism in rock and roll creole: white line fever, paint fume flashbacks, a stranger wading out alone into the black surf. Gun Outfit let levitating hooks and an emotional heaviness co-exist in their impressionistic songs, like the light-and-dark glow of a perpetual magic hour. As ever, they sound like they just wandered off the set of a country Western being shot inside a shipping container, but most recent album ‘Dream All Over’ (Paradise of Bachelors) is Gun Outfit's most consistent record by some margin. With its echoing grooves, drifting landscapes, and new textures—bits of bluegrass banjo, homemade electric sitars—‘Dream All Over’ has the blue-sky sensibility of a soul-searching road trip. Gun Outfit's music has gotten slower with each of their four albums, an inversion of (or response to) how human life has evolved since their band formed nine years ago. Perhaps this is why Gun Outfit—a band that will validate your pain as much as it will comfort you—still has such a fervent cult following underground. Gun Outfit understands what it is to feel unsettled, to need some calming through the zero hours.

http://www.gunoutfit.us/

AMPS FOR CHRIST is the very hand-made, folk art project of Henry Barnes, also known as a member of legendary noise-crust band Man is the Bastard. With Amps For Christ, he embraces the rustic electrified, the feathery jangle, the modulated organ with lashings of harmonised leads, the sweeter, the messier. On recent LP, ‘Canyons, Cars And Crows’ (Shrimper) there’s a new found deliberateness and refinement at play. The stubborn fuzziness of Barnes’ vision makes for a halo effect: On the instrumental ‘Hills of Padua’, keyboards are treated and warped until they bleat like bagpipes, even as Barnes feeds them through a distortion pedal that might have been built out of a Geiger counter. That tattered, mutated, yet undeniably traditional folk air assumes a more solid shape on ‘Scottish Country Dance’, another vocal-free track that balances chiming delicacy with an earth-scraping underbelly glacial enough to have carved out the Great Glen. A lonesome sitar curls around Barnes’ barebones, Fahey-esque acoustic guitar, while a waveform is whittled into a haunting drone, a looped memory of those since gone. Barnes records at home, and that homespun ethic is more than just a method of expedience; it fills the corners of his music with cobwebs and echoes, a cocooning insularity that reduces even the most cosmic sentiment to something small and warm. Cloaked in mystique, sequestered in hermetic glory, AFC carries around its own atmosphere—one that we all must breathe deeply of.

https://ampsforchrist.bandcamp.com/

Huge thanks to all of you for reading this and to everyone who came out over the weekend to watch Sauna Youth et al too! Catch you tomorrow,

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GUN OUTFIT

AMPS FOR CHRIST

Wednesday 17 February

The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB