Steve Gunn’s new album, The Unseen In Between (Matador), contains the most assertively outgoing music of the Brooklyn-based guitarist’s career. It grabs the listener right out of the gate with the soaring strings, reverberant electric guitar, and swinging upright bass (played by Bob Dylan bandleader Tony Garnier) of “New Moon.” Gunn has never sounded as confident as he does singing the album’s sequence of gracefully winding melodies, and its gorgeous production (from Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist James Elkington, who’s worked with the likes of Jeff Tweedy, Richard Thompson, and Brokeback) delivers one perfectly placed detail after another.…
Steve Gunn’s new album, The Unseen In Between (Matador), contains the most assertively outgoing music of the Brooklyn-based guitarist’s career. It grabs the listener right out of the gate with the soaring strings, reverberant electric guitar, and swinging upright bass (played by Bob Dylan bandleader Tony Garnier) of “New Moon.” Gunn has never sounded as confident as he does singing the album’s sequence of gracefully winding melodies, and its gorgeous production (from Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist James Elkington, who’s worked with the likes of Jeff Tweedy, Richard Thompson, and Brokeback) delivers one perfectly placed detail after another.…