…Steve Gunn recorded his new LP Daylight Daylight with one primary collaborator. James Elkington, much like Gunn, is a languid singer-songwriter and a master of acoustic folk guitar.
Gunn and Elkington are old friends, and Elkington previously produced Gunn’s 2019 album The Unseen in Between. The two of them recorded Daylight Daylight at Elkington’s Nada Studios in Chicago, and Elkington contributed string and woodwind arrangements, which makes for a cool new dimension on a Steve Gunn record. A press release mentions Mark Hollis, Ennio Morricone, the Fall, and Basil Kirchin as inspirations, and the album includes violins and viola from from Macie Stewart, cellos from Ben Whiteley, upright bass from Nick Macri, and woodwinds from…
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Music for Writers is a wordless collection of pieces meant to accompany thought and inspire another way. It is music made in both stillness and motion, music that listens as much as it speaks. Each track offers a space—open, textured, often slow-moving—where ideas, images, and feelings drift in and out. It’s a record I’ve been thinking about and wanting to make for a long time – my first solo instrumental album.
The album was recorded across places—Brooklyn, Berlin, Latvia—using a minimal setup: guitar, synthesizers, field recordings, and the rooms themselves. The compositions are both structured and improvised, emerging from a process of close attention. Rather than telling a story, they respond to the light in a room…