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For fans of Lee Hazlewood, Roy Orbison, Hank Williams, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Jesus & Mary Chain, & Spiritualized
Gunman and the Holy Ghost is another music project created by Hákon Aðalsteinsson (The Third Sound). The songs were written in Berlin during the coldest months of the winter then recorded and mixed next spring time. Now available on 180 gram vinyl.
From a review by JJ Baker: When I started listening to Gunman & The Holy Ghost it actually made me laugh. Such misery! This is melancholy with gristle! This album is barefaced in it's misery-it doesn't resist it, it uses it.
Song titles like I Don't Believe In Love Anymore and Oh Lord, Let Me Die In Pain are pretty good indication of what we're in for here, though there's great variation on this deliciously dark album. Opener The Eight To Five Train To Nothing snared me right in the lip and I was willfully dragged up through that ink black water and onto the good ship Gunman.
A relatively upbeat tune, it has some sad, sad lyrics:I would want you here but you're nowhere near so I just keep steaming on; Into the wilderness and unhappiness right back where I came from Lines like this are so damn dark, they bring a smile to my face¦
Tracklisting:
1. The Eight To Five Train To Nothing
2. Oh Lord, Let me Die In Pain
3. Lonely
4. I Don't Believe In Love Anymore
5. Jesus Why Can't I Walk With You?
6. Like A Soldier...
7. A Way Back From Civilization
8. Outlaw's Shout
9. Now It's Too Late
10. Dream Of A Highway -
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Icelandic psych country outfit Gunman & The Holy Ghost fronted by Hakon Adalsteinsson who resides in Berlin and doubles as guitar player for Anton Newcombe & Tess Parks, release their second full length album on cult Berlin label 8mm Musik.
The Story Of Radiate And Novocaine, Gunman's second album, was recorded and co produced with sound artist BJ Nilsen in various locations in Berlin and the process took more than a year.
The album, described as misery ballads, dark alternative country, tells tales of opposites attracting and colliding, love and separation, inner demons and the surreal aspects of human existence.
Songwriters like Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave are underlying influences - wonderful, smooth alt-country songs.
The album is first and foremost one thing: misery ballads, which serenade opposites attracting and colliding. Love and separation, inner demons and the surreal aspects of human existence . Not a surprise, coming from 8MM Musik.
Tracklisting:
1. Alone ,
2. Broken Mirrors
3. Now That It's Over
4. When I Realize You're Gone
5. Forget All Our Sorrows
6. Gun Blue Steel & Cold
7. When I Used To Have Dreams
8. Do You Want Me To Stay?
9. Silver Screen & Fallen Stars
10. Radiate & Novocaine