Eyes on the lines

"Brooklyn singer, songwriter, and guitar slinger Steve Gunn makes his Matador debut with Eyes on the Lines, a windblown set of road explorations that, despite its meandering nature, is one of his most accessible records yet. The Pennsylvania native has maintained a prolific output over the previous decade, much of it in the form of one-off projects and collaborations, but his solo releases all seem to spring from the same well of wanderlust ... As with Gunn's more recent albums, echoes of cerebral jammers like the Grateful Dead and the Velvet Underground can be heard in his work, though his style ultimately comes across as more impressionistic than either of those two sources".

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"Like the rest of the music on the record, there's no tension, no problem - these melodies are the cousins of the tunes we hum to ourselves as we walk around trying to retain balance, trying to even out the good moments and the bad. Gunn subsumes our drama by urging us, through the timbre of his guitar, to take in the leaves, the water, the steam".