Gunwife Gone

sad girl music.with boys. five people with very different musical influences coming together to make music that will make you wanna cry or scream or belt your heart out. or all of the above.



From the Baltimore City Paper:

Good Music in the Name of Bad Beer by Al Shipley

".Our main reason for checking out the show was a local band we caught a brief glimpse of last year that left us wanting to see more. Gunwife Gone is an intriguing band that can't help but stand out on any indie-rock bill: three women, singing and playing keyboards and saxophone, one of them wearing a glittery red dress and blond bob wig, backed by two men on bass and drums. The band's music is essentially classic piano pop, with an occasional left turn into something darker, like the lurching groove of "Backwards Forwards" that closed its set. It's hard to imagine how that sound meshed with Gunwife Gone's former collaborator, local human beatbox genius Shodekeh, when the band was originally called Walkout a couple years ago. We got a better idea of how that worked on Monday, when the band coaxed Shodekeh out of the audience to substitute for the rhythm section on one song--his mouth provided intricate beats for an otherwise slow, stately waltz. And given that GG's recorded output so far consists only of three songs on a self-titled EP, it was good to hear some more promising material that we hope to hear on a full-length sometime soon."

Lake Trout Come Out of Hibernation

".Entering the club about an hour before Lake Trout took the stage, it was disorienting to hear Gunwife Gone playing extremely glitzy piano- and saxophone-driven cabaret pop, and even more so to see most of the crowd completely transfixed on the unlikely opening act's lead singer, who wore a shiny red outfit and belted out torch songs like a pop star from another era. There's perhaps no bigger triumph for an unknown band than to play on a bill where it doesn't seem to fit in at all with the venue or the other acts yet manages to completely win over the audience, and Gunwife Gone can lay claim to that rare achievement." Posted by Al Shipley | 12/26/2007 12:08:55 PM