Steve Gunn is coming out with an album June 3 on Matador Records, and has shared a new single at NPR in anticipation of the upcoming release. “Ancient Jules” sees Gunn’s voice and guitar work once again backed by a full band, which fills out his sound without fundamentally altering it. As NPR’s premier says, “here he is guided, as ever, by a riff that plays with time—a wormhole of a hook that’s whipped up in a hurry and brought back to a long sip.”
Steve Gunn’s “Ancient Jules”
Liz Wood
Liz Wood is a writer and critic living in Cape Cod. She was a 2022 National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critics Fellow and a member of the NBCC 2023 and 2024 Greg Barrios Book in Translation Prize. Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Words Without Borders, Electric Literature, and elsewhere.