On The Tracks Again
Self-released

Mr Gunston is a stark warning to the world. The internet's ability to 'democratise' music by allowing anyone who desired to get their songs out there and heard is claimed as a great victory over the† corrupt major labels. This may well be so, and the death of those cartels will not be mourned, but it doesn't mean that all, or even much, of the output we're confronted with is worth the time it takes to listen to.

A case in point, Mr Gunston plonks down fourteen tracks of London-based Americana, taking the word-play of Dylan and giving us a rhyming dictionary. He tries to ape the grandeur of Springsteen and giving us something that even a Killers knock-off would disown. For all we know, Mr Gunston could be revelation, a slow developer who goes on to take the world by storm, but if this is so, could he please go and develop somewhere else, far out of earshot?

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