When Dave Larkin’s previous band Dallas Crane seemed to fizzle away after their support slot for The Who earlier this year, few people saw another record coming out from one of the guys any time soon, but Gun Street Girls is just that.
Larkin has pieced together Dave Buttersworth (of Melbourne rockers The Double Agents) on bass and Callum John Barter on drums.
This record at times is awesome - a favourite being ‘Millennium Man’; a catchy song shouting “I’m a good for nothing product of the times/I’m a millennium man looking for a part to play,” in the refrain.
The tune is among the more insightful on the record, which comes as a surprise when the album’s lyrical tone is set with the opener ‘How I Roll’ (“That’s how I roll”? Seriously?).
Towards the end, the track ‘Slight Is The Hand Of Love’ sounds a bit like a watered down Muse song. Unfortunately for every moment of lyrical wizardry there is a dreary plod of
The album is produced by Dave Larkin and engineered by drummer Callum John Barter - so it’s entirely in-house. Unfortunately, most of the time this shows. The sound itself is demo quality at best.
This might not be a record that is going to set the world on fire, but there are some good rock ‘n’ roll moments on here and it’s certainly worth checking out.
