The Gentle Guest's previous release Our Little Ruckus aspirated soft elegies evocative of its recording near the sandstone hills and forested dells of northern Wisconsin. A year later, We Are Bound To Save Some Souls Tonight sounds like the distillate of a darker tableau, one adumbrated by a midnight fire set on derelict train tracks now a ladder for repentant bacchanalians climbing their way
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--- - |- A new Eau Claire, WI based artist (does anyone even know where that is??), The Gentle Guest, and their debut record, We Are Bound To Save Some Souls Tonight (out 09.30.08) made an instant impression on us. The Gentle Guest's music doesn't quite fit perfectly in the mold that our tiny scene has cut out for itself, but its rowdy character and Americana feel is done very well and is a s...
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The Gentle Guest's previous release Our Little Ruckus aspirated soft elegies evocative of its recording near the sandstone hills and forested dells of northern Wisconsin. A year later, We Are Bound To Save Some Souls Tonight sounds like the distillate of a darker tableau, one adumbrated by a midnight fire set on derelict train tracks now a ladder for repentant bacchanalians climbing their way
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Melissa Schrettner STAFF WRITERWhen I learned that Eric Rykal's The Gentle Guest was a group of musicians who claim that the sounds of their music "can be found somewhere between the Great Depression and 2008," I was immediately wary. What does that mean? But after one listen to We Are Bound to Save Some Souls Tonight, it was like a giant epiphany—it made so much sense that it was mind-boggling.
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| 2 Darlin' Darla |
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| 3 Down at the Still |
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| 4 Martyrdom |
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| 5 Under the Setting Sun |
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