{"id":2230,"date":"2017-05-12T14:45:20","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T14:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-gun-shy-the-long-dance\/"},"modified":"2018-03-21T22:03:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T22:03:07","slug":"review-gun-shy-the-long-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-gun-shy-the-long-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Gun Shy &#8211;\u00a0The Long Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/1e7762e96c0d1ddc3a988d1695b3c34a\/tumblr_op9yf0NCOi1r8no6so3_r8_500.png\" width=\"250em\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>Starting over with a new band can have its pitfalls. Even more so, leaving a band on the brink of bigger things is a big risk, yet for Josh Bannister he took that risk when he left Milk Teeth last January. Now 18 months on, his new band, <b>Gun Shy<\/b> have delivered their second EP in the form of <i>&lsquo;The Long Dance&rsquo;<\/i>. While his former bandmates seem to be heading in a grunge-pop direction, Bannister and company delve into a variety of styles and textures over the seven tracks on offer.<\/p>\n<p>For the most part, <i>&#8216;The Long Dance\u2019<\/i> is bleak, taking you on a journey of impassioned punk and reflective shoegaze. Songs such as <i>&#8216;Test You Like Gold&rsquo;<\/i> and <i>&#8216;In Perfect Silence&rsquo;<\/i> are brooding and underpinned by intense intimacy gradually becoming unhinged.<\/p>\n<p><!-- more --><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8216;Whilst You Execute&rsquo;<\/i> keeps things ticking along; loose, bubbling guitars and frantic drum work. Whereas the title track is one of the EP&rsquo;s liveliest offerings as Bannister&rsquo;s screams battle against a wall of soaring guitars with conviction, before a sea of feedback seeps into <i>\u2018Holding Onto Nothing\u2019<\/i>. It\u2019s here where Bannister\u2019s reflective words take centre stage, delivered in a spoken word manner before the core line of <i>\u2018why are you running around, making faces at everyone?\u2019<\/i> is sung with raw emotion.<\/p>\n<p>Concluding track, <i>\u2018Waiting For\u2019<\/i> plays off washed out, Cure-esque guitars before launching into a fuzz-laden wall of distortion, allowing the bands instrumentation to be the main focus.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the often cold demeanour, <i>&#8216;The Long Dance\u2019<\/i> is a cohesive EP that sees <b>Gun Shy<\/b> unrestricted by genre labels, allowing them to drift from one style to the next with ease.  Naturally, it is a more focused set of songs compared to <i>\u2018First Transmission\u2019<\/i>, with definite evidence of organic growth on show.That said, the slabs of intensity and the stylistic ebb and flow means <i>&#8216;The Long Dance\u2019<\/i> requires several listens to be fully understood.<\/p>\n<p>3\/5<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8216;The Long Dance&rsquo;<\/i> EP by <b>Gun Shy<\/b> is out now on <b>Wrong Way Round Records<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Gun Shy<\/b> links: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/welcometogunshy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/welcometogunshy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/welcometogunshy.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words by S\u00eaan Reid (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeanReid86\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@SeanReid86<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting over with a new band can have its pitfalls. Even more so, leaving a band on the brink of bigger things is a big risk, yet for Josh Bannister he took that risk when he left Milk Teeth last January. 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