Meet the Swan by The Warm Gunns

Lead singer Cris Cox channeled the spririt of Bowie, Jagger, Prince and Iggy into his stage show...During the set, for

every too-cool-for-this-indie scenester who stared at the Gunns with mouths agape, there was someone else with devil horns in the air screaming with his or her (mostly hers) might. The line

for the Warm Gunns' merch table stretched halfway down the back of the club wall. In all fairness to the Gunns, they won the crowd over and were much loved...

-Chris Parizo/Southeastern Performer

Review 2

The Warm Gunns are everything you want from a rock band - dirty, sexy, raw, infectious driving rhythms clever songwriting and an entertaining live show. The real deal!

-Michele Rhea Caplinger/Senior Executive Director NARAS Atlanta Chapter

Review 3

[The Warm Gunns]...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 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 band's 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 tha ordinarily expected. The deviations

continue popping up throughout the album, such as 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 this is what many a bar rock band could sound like if they just put

down the Jack for a minute and learned to groove Like The Stones in their prime. As much as they borrow from the past, however, The Warm Gunns never sound like

anything but themselves.

--Michael Brooker/Southeastern Performer

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