Welcome To The GUNMOLL Family. GUNMOLL

This is the third of three albums released last week, that all are too good to ignore but of which two would have missed out if I had stuck to three new albums a week. So all three get a shorter review today.

GUNMOLL debuted on this blog in 2024 with the single 'Tata's Lie' and hearing it back as the first real song on the band's EP, it's quite clear why. Tata's Lie is a supercharged song that is beyond just infectious. The voice of singer/guitarist Jolien Grunberg may be a bit on helium, not unlike Mette Lindberg of The Asteroids Galaxy Tour and Amy Taylor's of Amyl and the Sniffers, it's totally effective in GUNMOLL. I wrote the first real song above, as the album opens with a spoken word track, that I'll let you explore for yourself.

GUNMOLL started as a duo consisting of Grunberg and guitar player/producer Barend Bol. The two found Pim de Roij (drums) and Koen van Bemmelen (bass) to complete the band. The rhythm section certainly manages to give the band a rock and a dancing vibe. Together they explore anything between the previously mentioned Danish band, Cari Cari and Donna Blue. So anything from exotic chords and rhythms to a rock sound can come forward. It makes Welcome To The GUNMOLL Family a varied album but in several parts also exciting album. At the same time it is not your average alternative rock album and that is not an easy feat to achieve these days.

The five songs on Welcome To The GUNMOLL Family are over before you know it and you want to play them again and again.

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