San Francisco Music Blog

Who knew the missing link between Japan and Detroit was in France? Grenoble act Gunslingers profess to perform "massacre rock," and yeah, that pretty much sums up the group's heavy on the fuckedupeffects whitenoisefeedback powerdrumming...lemme just say the music's a doozy. It's a dirty bomb of Stooges dirge and Tokyo speaker sprawl, with more than a bit of Lemme intensity driving the explosion. It's hard to tell where the accent's coming from with all those echoes giving the vocals the spins, but as Julian Cope wrote in his review of Gunslingers' No More Invention, this record ain't nothin to mess with  (or, to put it more succintly, Cope recommends of Invention: "inject the whole sticky mess up the puckered ass of the current Indie Scene and STAND WELL BACK !!!"). Those not part of that puckered ass may stand well close to Gunslingers next week, when the band is lined up to smoke the Hemlock stage on Thursday, March 12. Start the shock treatement early, though, by giving "The Minister's Black Veil" a spin.