Gunning For Tamar - Time Trophies EP

(Alcopop! 2012)

Watch out because Gunning for Tamar's newest release is coming straight for your wrist. That's right, GFT have teamed up with Alcopop! Records for a wristwatch release of the band's new EP (there will be a download code on each watch) in what has to be the most unorthodox release from an Oxford band in some time. But what less would you expect from one of Oxford's brightest indie prospects? “Time Trophies” is full of the band's familiar jittery energy but it is so concentrated that the song sweeps you off your feet and you feel like you're being carried through space and time in the DeLorean. “Chocolate Hooves” shares the same restless rhythm but is mellower (by GFT standards). Final track “Astronaut-Abort” is one of the most complex things the band have recorded yet, boasting grand pianos, shifty time signatures and a cinematic scope. There's a sense that the band have tried to cut all the chaff and keep each section of the songs essential and anthemic and it works to their credit. If this doesn't launch GFT into the next stratum of British indie acts then nothing will.

[Originally published in Oxford Music Scene magazine, issue 17]
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