Steve Gunn Announces Daylight Daylight; Shares “Nearly There”

Steve Gunn has been at the vanguard of American experimental / guitar-oriented rock music for over a decade. After a trio of acclaimed albums recorded for Matador, Gunn will release his 7th studio record – and first in 4 years – on November 7th.With Daylight Daylight, Gunn wanted to capture something of the intimacy of playing solo, the sense of possibility and discovery that sparks when he sits down to write, while also creating a rich sonic world for the listener to inhabit. Rather than pulling together a band to flesh the songs out, as he’s done on previous albums, he enlisted a single primary collaborator: producer James Elkington, an old friend and longtime collaborator (who also produced Gunn’s 2019 album The Unseen In Between). Elkington is known as a guitarist, but Gunn asked him to contribute arrangements of strings and woodwinds, inspired in part by the music they’ve talked about over the years (ie. Mark Hollis, Ennio Morricone, The Fall, Basil Kirchin) and the evolution of their own relationship making records - both together, and with others. They soon found a fruitful working process for Daylight Daylight: Gunn would record solo demos and send them to Elkington, who had free rein to develop the arrangements on his own. Working primarily out of Elkington’s Nada Studios in Chicago, they would continue adding from there—a whisper of a synthesizer, a guitar overdub, a muted percussion line—but they were committed to the relative spareness of their initial approach. Macie Stewart (violins and viola), Ben Whiteley (cellos), Nick Macri (upright bass) and Hunter Diamond (woodwinds) also contributed. Listen to the album opener “Nearly There” today: noquarter.lnk.to/nearlythere And pre-order Daylight Daylight at the link below: noquarter.lnk.to/daylightdaylight Tracklisting:Nearly ThereMorning on K RoadAnother FadeHadrian’s WallDaylight DaylightLoonA WalkGunn will tour the UK and Europe in October and November and is announcing a run of US dates today. Sept 11 – Chicago, IL @ Sound & Gravity FestivalSept 25 – Kingston, NY @ Tubby’s Oct 23 - London, UK @ St. Mathias *Oct 24 - Glasgow, UK @ Hug and Pint *Oct 25 - York, UK @ The Band Room *Oct 26 - Shropshire, UK @ Firefly *Oct 28 - Stockholm, Sweden @ stadsgardsterminalenOct 29 - Göteborg, Sweden @ PustervikOct 30 - Oslo, Norway @ BlaOct 31 - Kristiansand, Norway @ Dirty Old TownNov 1 – Stavanger, Norway @ FolkenNov 2 – Bergen, Norway @ KunsthallNov 9 - Sétubal, Portugal @ Forum Luisa TodiNov 14 - Dranouter, Belgium @ DranouterNov 15 - Turnhout, Belgium De Warande Dec 3 – Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’sDec 4 – Baltimore, MD @ MetroDec 5 – Raleigh, NC @ King’sDec 6 - Washington, DC @ DC9Dec 10 – Portsmouth, NH @ The Press RoomDec 11 – Portland, ME @ SpaceDec 17 – New York, NY @ Le Poisson RougeJan 1 – Sawyer, MI @ Out ThereHan 14 – Seattle, WA @ The Triple DoorJan 15 – Vancouver, BC @ The Fox CabaretJan 17 – Portland, OR @ Polaris HallJan 20 – San Francisco, CA @ Café Du NordJan 21 – Santa Cruz, CA @ The Crepe PlaceJan 22 – Ojai, CA @ Deer LodgeJan 23 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Lodge RoomJan 25 – Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy’s & Harriet’s *w/ James Elkington