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On Friday, April 1st, Olympia trio Gun Outfit celebrate the release of their new 12" EP High Places in Seattle. Ironically, title track "High Places" was recorded in a basement, and "High Places" is already the name of a LA duo who-like Gun Outfit-have released material on the Post Present Medium label run by No Age's Dean Spunt. Gun Outfit's Dylan Sharp says the song is about touring, but references Garth Brooks' "Friends in Low Places." April Fool's?
Multi-tiered, incidental song-name humor aside, there's nothing funny about Gun Outfit's music-they're a melodically-gifted, rightfully-acclaimed band with a flair for melding the clean guitars and drawling vocals of post-punk and '90s slacker rock with the aching, whiskey-soaked world-weariness of country music classics. They bring this signature sound to a stacked show Thursday at all-ages hub the Northern.
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