FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE –
The Los Angeles pop-folk crew known as
Percy and the Gunslingers have released their definitive new single,
“Andrew.” The single has been published alongside two other
official Percy and the Gunslingers releases, “Gunslinger Shuffle”
and “Magnetic Metal.” The trio represents the most significant
clutch of songs produced by this remarkable group to date, and is an
exceptional introduction to one of the most intriguing and delightful
music acts performing today.
The sound of Percy and the Gunslingers
is somewhere between classic rock, blues, and western-themed folk
music. It has been variously categorized as rock, alt rock, classic
rock, country, folk, folk rock, indie, indie pop, and pop. The band
themselves have described their music as, “If Feist, Beach House,
and Fleetwood Mac had a glorious love child...” This sonic chimera
is not at all far from the actual sound, though the experience is
much more effective firsthand.
Their music is melodic, harmonic, and
highly lyrical, providing country-western-style narratives from track
to track that are inventive, colorful, and fun. These stories, penned
by singer Ali Mills, are weaved into the music so tightly as to
become interdependent with it, and the tales braid together so that a
cohesive environment for their tunes is set. This provides an
imaginary, yet almost palpable stage on which their performance takes
place in the listener's mind. Their vocals are exceptionally
feminine, their guitars decidedly masculine, and their percussion is
warm, natural, and gorgeously straightforward.
The group cite as main artistic
influences a gigantic list of legends that spans the decades:
Fleetwood Mac, Beach House, Jenny Lewis, The Like, Fleet Foxes, Fat
City Reprise, Feist, Portugal the Man, Arcade Fire, Fool's Gold,
Blake Mills, Grizzly Bear, Radiohead, The Walkmen, Band of Horses,
Haim, The Dead Weather, Dawes, Warpaint, Moondoggies, Edward Sharpe
and the Magnetic Zeros, The Mowglis, Terraplane Sun, Tom Petty, New
Orleans Jazz, Lucinda Williams, Jesca Hoop, and Paul McCartney.
They are headed by the singer,
songwriter and front-woman Mills, whose original idea became the
inception of the band as a whole. Mills is joined by Eric David of
the David Brothers and Stampead, as well as by Frankie Pedano of Fat
City Reprise. Friends Nikki Kilker, Jon Stipp, Timmy Sean and Jon
Manness round out the lineup.
“Andrew” by Percy and the
Gunslingers is available online worldwide beginning 22 September
2013.
-S. McCauley
Staff Press Release Writer
MondoTunes
The single “Andrew” is
distributed globally by MondoTunes (www.MondoTunes.com)
and is available at iTunes for convenient purchase and download
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ARTIST CONTACT INFO:
percyandthegunslingers@yahoo.com
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