![]() Lyrically dense and poetic in the construction of every line, Other You provides a window into a man taking great care with the words he sings, Gunn’s tenor voice enhanced by polished production and neat, uncluttered instrumentation.Īs has increasingly been the case with Gunn’s musical offerings, his lyrical output is as integral to his work as the rich guitar work accompanying it. His latest offering, Other You, is in many ways a continuation of the more personal aspects of 2019’s The Unseen In Between, an album that tackled, among much else, the death of Gunn’s father.ĭespite Other You’s apparently second-person perspective, it’s a record that puts Gunn at the centre of his own musical landscape, an intimate recording that sees the artist as less of an outside narrator and more of an active participant in the stories he crafts. 2013’s Time Off saw Gunn’s smooth, airy vocals feature with increasing prominence, his folky, guitar-focused musings still integral by the time of his first full-length release-2014’s Way Out Weather. If plaudits have been hard-won, Gunn’s creative spark and technical mastery have been evident from his earliest offerings, such as 2009’s Boerum Palace, an early exhibition of complex, nuanced fretwork coupled with a gift for non-verbal storytelling. Gunn’s critically acclaimed 2019 effort The Unseen In Between has often been described as a “breakthrough”, but the real truth seems to be of an artist making incremental steps along the road to individual recognition rather than achieving a seismic breakout with one definitive record. Despite a career which has spanned nearly 15 years of virtuoso talent as a melodic, technically proficient guitar player and a nuanced, poetic lyricist, it has only been Gunn’s more recent output that has gained mainstream traction. ![]() ![]() Few artists have enjoyed such inexhaustible creative productivity yet such modest mainstream recognition as Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Steve Gunn.
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