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
--- - |- 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...
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