Like a stone eroded by years in the arroyo, Gun Outfit's enveloping "Western expanse" aesthetic of guitar levitations
and honky-tonk hexes has become gradually smoother over time. Their fifth LP ranks as their most brutally beautiful
statement yet. Drawing from mythologies both classical and postmodern, Out of Range builds a world in which
Brueghel the Elder, St. Augustine, and the ancient goddess Cybele ride with John Ford, Samuel Beckett, and
Wallace Stevens on a Orphic-Gnostic suicide drive towards the hallucinatory vanishing points of the Southwestern
desert, debating the denouement of the decaying American dream.
