Gunning For Tamar Stream New EP

Gunning For Tamar's new EP, 'Deaf Cow Motel' is streaming on Rock Sound.

'Deaf Cow Motel' will be released via Walnut Tree Records on May 31st.

Read our 5/5 review of the EP here.

Cuba Cuba, Gunning For Tamar and Drawings UK Tour

Cuba Cuba, Gunning For Tamar and Drawings will be touring together from late June for the Walnut Tree Records Summer Tour.

June 25th: Northampton Racecourse (Burn The Fleet replace Drawings)
June 29th: Swindon 12 Bar
June 30th: Oxford The Cellar
July 1st: Kingston Cricketers
July 2nd: Southampton Joiners
July 3rd: The Walnut Tree (Invite only, email for entry)
July 4th: London Nambucca
July 5th: Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach (Cuba Cuba album launch show)
July 6th: Birmingham Unplug
July 8th: Leicester Soundhouse

Album Review: Gunning For Tamar - Deaf Cow Motel

Walnut Tree Records, despite its seemingly diminutive stature, is fast becoming home to some of the UK and Europe’s brightest and freshest talent. Having somewhat of a Midas touch, the label’s head Tom Beck, only works with brilliant bands it seems, and par for course, Gunning For Tamar, one of the labels newer acquisitions, are brilliant. ‘Deaf Cow Motel’ is this Oxford based four-piece’s second release proper, but their relative inexperience really doesn’t show. The EP’s four tracks are fluid, professional and display the band’s capability as musicians brilliantly. Sounding like a stoically English Biffy Clyro re-interpreting the soundscapes of Incubus, ‘Deaf Cow Motel’ really is a release to get excited about.

The rhythmic drumming of D’arcy King is infused throughout opening track ‘German Treasure Island’ and gives the track its abounding energy. Akin to something you might hear on a bad techno record at the tracks start, it’s not long before the beats transform into the lifeblood of the track, keeping its flow and allowing the track to twist and turn freely. Like the majority of the EP, the song is huge. Vocalist, Joe Wallis sounds like a more anglicised Brandon Boyd during the opening half of the track, but soon establishes his own unique voice, singing "I’ll wear my chains, if you tie your wings" with a real sense of emotive purpose.

Album Review: Phantom Theory/Gunning For Tamar – Split EP

Oxford's Phantom Theory kick off this split EP with the moody ‘Trancedog’ a fairly boring song that’s poorly produced and poorly executed, where they go for atmospheric they end up with woefully disjointed.

Things don’t improve much with next song ‘Playground’ it is a slight improvement, but like I said, not by much at all. The main riff running through the song is annoying but it does build up nicely to a good outro.

Gunning For Tamar take over to try and rescue the EP and to be fair, their first song, ‘The Organs, The Senses, The Muscles, The Memories’ does provide an improvement albeit a slight one. It’s a slow song that manages to build on a decent sounding atmosphere.