release date: 1979
format: vinyl (first pressing - WGLP1) / cd (1996 reissue)
[album rate: 3 / 5] [3,08]
producer: mixed by Lars Muhl, Werner Scherrer, Per Stan
label: Smash / CMC Records (reissue) - nationality: Denmark
Album ep debut by Danish new wave band Warm Guns from the city of Aarhus is a live album consisting of 7 tracks at a total playing time of 26 mins. The band consists of vocalist and primary composer Lars Muhl (also credited on piano), Jens G. Nielsen (who also plays drums in the band Gnags, and who is older brother to the artist Elisabeth Gjerluff Nielsen) on drums, Jacob Perbøll on bass, Per Møller on guitar and vocals, and with Lars Hybel on guitar and vocals. Well, at least that's how they are credited on the album. Fact is Lars Muhl is the band's lead vocalist, all others are singing backing vocals.
I purchased the album on vinyl back in the early '80s, and I was rather fond of it then. Now I think it's somewhat less interesting, and the album hasn't aged all to well. The band plays a British founded new wave, especially inspired by Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, Graham Parker, and The Knack, but also combined with a blend from American artists like Bruce Springsteen and Roy Orbison, it both sounds new and direct while maintaining something from the past. This particular album was recorded live in '78 at Aarhus Musik Teater.
