GUN | 5 tracks and acts that influenced ‘Favourite Pleasures’

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Scottish rockers GUN are on course for their first top ten album in over 13 years.

Marking over a decade since their inception, heir seventh studio album ‘Favourite Pleasures’ was released on September 15th and is locked and loaded, sitting at number 8 in the midweek album charts.

As the band are ready to fire, we caught up with frontman Dante Gizzi who shared 5 singles that shaped the release of ‘Favourite Pleasures’.

Drive in Saturday – David Bowie
In my teens I used to listen to this song a lot. I guess I probably overplayed it and it fell off the radar for a while. When he passed away this one of the songs that I got reconnected with in a big way. It’s just an incredible piece of music and remains timeless to this day.

Elephant – Tame Impala
I’ve always loved this style of groove. It’s just mesmerising but whats really clever is that it’s not overly produced. It has a subtle reference to glam of the seventies and in a funny way I think that’s how it remains contemporary.

Rise – PIL
To say this song inspired us in one of our songs might be a bit of a little white lie but worth mentioning nonetheless. Our original idea for ‘The Boy Who Fooled The World’ however had been referenced by this song. The track had started off with full-on band and had been very much an influence at the beginning as to its sounds more than anything. It took a drastic turn when we got in the studio. All for the better.

Queens Of The Stone Age
This band is relevant in a lot of the rawness and energy that we’ve tried to instil into the album. There’s no band I think present day that have a knack like they do when it comes to recording in this style.

Rammstein
I think the vibe for the title track, ‘Favourite Pleasures’, had originated from listening to the industrial rock sound that this band captures. We wanted something that had that repetitive electromechanical sound and you can hear in the track although it’s very subtle but just enough to make the song motor.

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