I love it!!!  It's catchy, groovy, rockin' fun stuff!  Can't wait for these guys to come to my area so I can see them live.
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The Warm Gunns probably have one of the worst Beatles-reference names this side of Velvet Revolver. If that wasn’t bad enough, there’s that extra “n” at the end of Gunn. Also, like Velvet Revolver, the Warm Gunns don’t really sound much like the Beatles, opting instead to send up their praise to the gods of hard rock and mod culture, stopping along the way to baptize themselves in the river Jordan that is modern pop. This is all pretty evident after listening to their debut album Dark Fun.

However, what’s also evident is how amazingly well they make this formula work. The core of the Gunns’ songwriting lies in the capable hands of vocalist/percussionist Cris Cox and resident jack-of-all-trades Mark Dannells, who plays pretty much every type of instrument at a rock band’s disposal throughout the course of the album. You would need a detailed diagram to figure out who exactly is playing what on each track, but the bands vision is so uniformly implemented doing so would be sort of pointless anyway. 

The most striking musical characteristic noticed when starting up the disc lies in Cox’s vocals, which carry a much higher register than ordinarily expected. The deviations continue popping up throughout the album, such as with the hand claps on the stand-out “Who Do You (The Letter)” and in the almost New Order-dance cadence that drives “All for the Money.” Guitars bounce and slink around the mix rather than crunch, giving one the impression that this is what many a bar rock band could sound like if they just put down the Jack for a minute and learned how to groove like the Stones in their prime. As much as they draw inspiration from the past, however, the Warm Gunns never sound like anything but themselves.
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remarkable so very very remakable.....
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