Celebrating 25 years since the release of their award winning debut album Taking on the World legendary Scottish rockers GUN return with a stunningly mature and powerful album Frantic. Possibly forever associated with the outstanding 90’s cover of Cameo’s Word Up by those not aware of their body of work, this new album is a celebration of the evolving work that runs through their albums to ensure they are always contemporary and relevant.
Always known for their well written, hook laden tracks, the vocals of the fantastically moniker’d Dante Gizzi delivers a joyous 10 track rock fest. Although not the original vocal line up this is unequivocally a GUN album through and through, with ever present guitarist, and brother to Dante, Jools Gizzi refining every track with warm powerful riffs.
The spiritual opening of the album, Let it Shine, clearly alludes to the bands emergence from their hiatus and demands that historic fans will be dusting off tour shirts and new fans will be won. Recent single Labour of Life defines the album standard with a massively radio friendly clap/chant beat. There is genuinely not a poor track to be heard here and, for me, Seraphina is the stand out track showcasing all their strutting talent. This album will no doubt become a classic on a par with both heyday albums Gallus and Swagger.
There is a special edition offering of the CD with a live bonus disc covering a classic 10 track set recorded at Glasgow’s iconic King Tuts Wah Wah Hut.
There is also opportunity to see GUN in full flow on a select UK tour to celebrate the release which closes at a hometown gig at Glasgow’s Barrowlands.
11/11
Iain
@docswallow
Track Listing:
- Let It Shine
- Labour Of Life
- Beautiful Smile
- One Wrong Turn
- Our Time
- Frantic
- Hold Your Head Up
- Big City
- Seraphina
- Never Knew What I Had
March Tour Dates:
23rd - Newcastle O2 Academy2
24th – London Underworld
25th – Wolverhampton Slade Rooms
26th – Nottingham Rock City
27th – Manchester Academy3
28th – Glasgow Barrowlands