If you’re a fan of Sergio Leone’s Italiano decomposition of American West mythology and its Ennio Morricone heat-induced sound-scapes accompaniment then Spindrift’s new release The Legend Of God’s Gun (July 21st - Tee Pee Records) might be up your shot of mescal.
I haven’t seen the movie that this record soundtracks and probably wouldn’t have to to get the gist. Lone gunman enters a lawless town of frontier anarchy, blood and whiskey spills in copious quantities, sexy senorita will betray and be dispatched, roll credits. To fill in the details there are narrations of a “land untamed and riddled with lust, greed, debauchery and bullet holes” and “Speak up you rusted .45, How many can you name that you faced and left to die.” Nice!
There are the aforementioned Morricone-esque nervy spaghetti Westerns serenades (In the Beginning, Titoli, Speak to the Wind), heat-shimmering reverberated art rock (The New West, Speak to the Wind, Burn the Church, Blessing the Bullets) and even quasi-electronica (The Scorpions Venom) and ending with the warpath horse-gallop of Indian Run .
Now I have to see the movie and hope it’s half as entertaining as Spindrift’s soundtrack.
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