Artist:Gunslingers

After a year spent performing at rowdy live shows and writing a bunch of killer new tunes, Melbourne four piece Gunslingers are back with their blistering debut LP, DJANGUS. Like California punks Wavves and Weezer before them, Gunslingers specialise in giving 60s bubblegum melodies the rock’n’roll treatment, adding explosive choruses and layer upon layer of fuzz. The band has refined its sound since releasing previous EPs My First Trip to Mexico and Radiation in the Sky, which were brimming with rambunctious Spaghetti Western jams and dark Americana. DJANGUS still contains a hint of the Wild West, but Gunslingers have moved on from their psychobilly origins towards punchy surf rock melodies and pop punk charm. As a group of energetic young shredders, Gunslingers’ plaintive honesty will take some people by surprise. “I’ve got love in my veins and I want you to know it,” vocalist Tom Lutrov cries out halfway through the record. His lines are direct and from the heart, like most ...