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Steve Gunn - Way Out Weather
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Way
Out
Weather
was
originally
released
in
October
2014
to
huge
critical
acclaim.
While
ecological
unease
worries
at
the
edges
of
Steve
Gunn’s
bold
new
full-band
album
Way
Out
Weather—the
breathing
sea
of
the
billowing
title
track,
the
bad
wind
and
moon
over
“Wildwood,”
the
polluted
pyramid
and
blue
bins
in
“Shadow
Bros,”
the
desert
heat
sickness
of
“Atmosphere”—the
resonance
of
the
title
is
primarily
metaphorical
and
oblique.
Written
largely
while
on
tour,
the
record
is
an
elliptical
but
seductive
travelogue,
more
engaged
with
navigating
foreign
(“way
out”)
emotional
landscapes,
and
with
6
grasping
at
universal
threads
of
language
and
narrative,
than
with
bemoaning
rising
sea
levels.
Despite
the
album-opening
lyric
to
the
contrary,
“Way
Out
Weather”
is
an
uncommon
song
in
Steve
Gunn’s
discography.
Sonically
and
lyrically
the
album
demonstrates
a
radical
evolution,
lighting
out
for
lusher,
more
expansive,
and
impressionistic
territories;
it’s
his
first
major
work
as
an
artist
for
whom
the
studio
provides
a
critical
context.
A
more
enigmatic
and
elevated
affair
than
its
predecessor,
Way
Out
Weather
completes
Gunn’s
satisfying
transformation
into
a
mature
songwriter,
singer,
and
bandleader
of
subtlety
and
authority.
It
ranks
as
most
impressive
and
inviting
record
yet,
an
inscrutable
but
entirely
self-assured
masterpiece.
Track
listing:
A1.
“Way
Out
Weather”
6.18
A2.
“Wildwood”
5.38
A3.
“Milly’s
Garden”
5.34
A4.
“Shadow
Bros”
4.29
B1.
“Fiction”
5.44
B2.
“Drifter”
3.59
B3.
“Atmosphere”
5.09
B4.
“Tommy’s
Congo”
6.34
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