Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Artisan Guns



Artisan Guns are one of those bands whose name seems to have always been familiar because I know people who know people who know people and hey! it's New Zealand.
But being somewhat of a pessimist towards the standard of popular New Zealand music (an admittedly stink start to NZMM on my part, apologies), I hadn't gone out of my way to find/purchase/sample-steal Bird & Bone and Allah knows they never played any publicized all-ages gigs in Wellington on that EP. Maybe they did and I was too cool to go. With all the Ivy Lies and Junipah out there you've got to approach any underage gig with skepticism.
Well fate and the general indie hub of Auckland guided me to Hearts. After picking up a copy of the recent Presence magazine, of which Artisan Guns were the cover story, I decided to give them a chance. This amounted to nothing until my Psych lecture a week back when a group of cool kids two rows in front of me started passing around a freshly bought copy of Hearts, so in the next brief talking interlude I decided to pass the laptop-yielder my flash drive.
Joy! He had Bird & Bone too!

Sure, that story's fine and dandy, but what of the music review?
Sordid analogy-folkspeak-jargon time. Ugh.
ARTISAN GUNS' HEARTS EP TRULY BRINGS OUT THE POP THAT CURRENT SECULAR MUSIC SO STUPIDLY IGNORES IT'S LIKE WHEN YOU'RE LYING IN A HAMMOCK WITH THE WRONG LOVER IN YOUR ARMS BUT ALSO A CAT SO IT'S ALRIGHT AND THE SOUND OF THE OCEAN DEFINITELY MAKES UP FOR THE TORN YOUTHFUL EMOTION INSIDE YOU PLUS THE GROUP TRULY SHOWS THAT THEY HAVE MATURED AS A COLLECTIVE CREW SINCE THEIR EARLY FORMED DAYS.
Suck it.
I don't review the way the music sounds.
You come hear for stories and free downloads.
If this wasn't a good album I wouldn't write a post about it.


Artisan Guns - Going Back In Time
(Open new page and click download)

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