STEVE GUNN
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‘Acoustic Unseen’ EP
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touring Australia this November
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Steve Gunn today releases Acoustic Unseen on Matador Records / Remote Control, a new EP of intimate acoustic versions of songs from his critically acclaimed latest album, The Unseen In Between. Steve Gunn will return to Australia this November for a run of headline shows in Sydney, Brisbane, Hobart and Castlemaine, as well as appearances at Mullum Festival, Melbourne Music Week and Coalchella. Full tour dates and ticket links below.
“After being on the road with the band since January,” says Gunn, “I wanted to spend an afternoon capturing the songs from The Unseen In Between as I originally wrote them, with just me and my acoustic. Mid-year, I went back to the great Strange Weather Studio in Brooklyn, and played through the songs in their most basic form. It felt good.”
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Accompanying the EP release is short compilation film Unseen Anthology. Directed by The Mitcham Submarine and edited by James Harman, the 12-minute film weaves together footage from touring, live sessions, official and unofficial music videos – including a breathtaking session for Toutpartout in a transformed convent in Ghent, on the road footage captured on a Fisher Price camera by Steve and his band, and acoustic videos filmed across London, including a Cecil Court bookshop. Taken together, it’s an engrossing, one-stop-shop live document of an artist in need of little more than a guitar and his voice to conjure a transfixing atmosphere, and an arresting visual companion to the EP.
Over the past few years, Steve Gunn has become one of American folk-rock’s most pivotal and regarded figures – conjuring immersive and psychedelic sonic landscapes live and on record, releasing a stream of lauded albums that have appeared in a multitude of ‘best of’ lists, and recording exploratory collaborations with artists including Mike Cooper, Kurt Vile, and Michael Chapman. The Unseen In Between is Steve’s most accomplished and moving work to date, with sweeping and immersive songs showcasing his deft yet minimal guitar style to the backdrop of rich instrumentation, the lyrics meditative and mysterious yet intimate and poignant.
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Steve Gunn will be joined by New Zealand’s Tiny Ruins for three co-headline shows. For almost 10 years, Tiny Ruins has been the vehicle Hollie Fullbrook’s intimate songwriting. In the wake of the release of Olympic Girls Solo, an acoustic recording of her widely acclaimed third album on Milk! Records, Hollie joins Steve Gunn for co-headline shows in Melbourne, Castlemaine and Sydney, in rare solo performances reflecting the sparse beauty and intricate guitar playing of her earliest work.
Purchase / Stream Acoustic Unseen
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STEVE GUNN – AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATES
Saturday 16 November + Sunday 17 November
Mullum Festival, Mullumbimby
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Monday 18 November
Junk Bar, Brisbane
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Wednesday 20 November
Altar, Hobart
w/ Andrew Tuttle
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Thursday 21 November
Theatre Royal, Castlemaine
w/ Tiny Ruins + Andrew Tuttle
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Friday 22 November
Melbourne Music Week / State Library, Melbourne
w/ Tiny Ruins + Grand Salvo
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Saturday 23 November
Coalchella @ Wombarra Bowlo, Wombarra
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Sunday 24 November
Red Rattler, Sydney
w/ Tiny Ruins + Andrew Tuttle
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