Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Rule books be damned. Take the blueprint of the ages and do the most honest thing we can in a period of time that is not just in flux, but actively breaking at the seams of credible moderation and instead is insisting we see the rules as unbendable orders that we play the game to age old dictates at the detriment of our own growth…we throw that rule book on the fire and look to a time of more honest understanding, those with mysteries and fierce Dark Faerie Tales holding our hearts.
Play it as though you were protected from the storms and you will always have those who laud your very being without realising the intensity and drama you could bring to the forefront, be safe, act innocent, and the world will clap in time as though the lie is comforting, harmless, beige…where is the fun in that, we should allow the mysterious to be viewed with the same artistic resonance as the light. It is a view that Gypsy Pistoleros hold dear it their brand-new album, Dark Faerie Tales.
The outlaws of Glam Punk Goth ‘n’ Roll grip life with firm pressure and a pulse that beats with time in such a way that thrills the listener mind with a shot from the gun of dopamine and offer intent and a refusal to cower under the unhinged rule book.
Through tracks such King Of Almost Everything, Take My Hand To Nightmare Land, Prince Of The Damned, I Whisper Goodbye, and the album title extravaganza of Dark Faerie Tales, what transpiresis a litany of exquisite strut, of unboastful cool which dramatically rocks and shales the soul with fury and pleasure in equal parts.
Produced by Dave Draper, the album unravels the messages of vulnerability, jeopardy and the kind of alchemy mutiny, agitating and progressing as each song ferociously entertains with a groove of dark magic, a presence that will not be erased because rock, because people, need to feel that life is not to be suffered with beige outlines but celebrated with golden hues and adornments on the holster of life.
Dark Faerie Tales is the superb follow up to the Church Of The Pistoleros, and those in the packed pews of the cathedral being built on incredible foundations, and the praise be’s are loud and bountiful.
Gypsy Pistoleros release Dark Faerie Tales on 17th April via New Church Records.
Ian D. Hall