Steve Gunn – Music for Writers – Album Review
by Killian Laher

On the back of the work Steve Gunn did with David Moore of Bing and Ruth two years ago, this is a fully instrumental Steve Gunn album.  By anyone’s standards, it’s pretty ‘ambient’ stuff, and these instrumentals are by and large gorgeous.  The opener, “Sky” (debesis), features a bed of steel guitar that runs through some gorgeous guitar picking.  Gunn composed and recorded these pieces in various locations in the US and Europe.  The reflective Safety shows a mastery of the slow build.  Park Entrance and Cat consist mainly of blissful guitar picking and keyboards, with the latter ending with the tolling of bells.

One of the highlights is Slow Singers on the Hill.  A fine piece of music, it conveys apprehension really well with guitars noodling over keyboards.  Also, Sunday is particularly gorgeous, a bucolic melody with rolling guitars.

Steve Gunn, having released some very strong guitar-based singer-songwriter material, shows that he can certainly turn his hand to more than one genre of music.

Slow Singers on the Hill