“I want to make pop rock music for people who are fucked up,” Militarie Gun frontman Ian Shelton said in a recent interview for the band’s new album, God Save the Gun. Shelton comes from hardcore punk, a world where fucked-up-ness is transmitted through vein-popping screamed vocals and antagonistic riffs. But with Militarie Gun, he’s always been more interested in spinning catharsis and confrontation into the biggest songs he possibly can. He spits and snarls, for sure, but then comes out with a chorus that could fill an arena.
God Save the Gun feels like the grandest realisation yet of that ambition. ‘B A D I D E A’ is the platonic ideal of a Militarie Gun song, with its exhilarating, barrelling energy and yell-along chorus. It also introduces the fact that this…

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