Daughn Gibson Shares First Album In 9 Years The Burgundy Daughns with Material from 2016-23 EP’s (White Denim Records)
Daughn Gibson pictured with a werewolf (CREDIT: Daughn Vas / SOURCE: @werewhoas)
Just this past Monday morning, Matt Korvette from Pissed Jeans/music reviews website Yellow Green Red sent out an unexpected Substack newsletter email, which read:
I’d apologize if I felt like this Spam email was truly egregious, but, please, understand that I’m quite heartfelt when I ask you to check it out: I just released a new LP by Daughn Gibson, entitled The Burgundy Daughns! I’m only gonna send an email once, I promise, because even though I realize it’s The World We Live In, any sort of blatant self-promotion online, especially, through a presence dedicated to celebrating the music and art of mostly strangers, still skeeves me out a little. Anyway, here’s the cover! Being thoughtful of your time, I’ll try to quickly address the work of Daughn Gibson to anyone reading this previously unaware of who or what “Daughn Gibson” is. It’s a guy, a close friend of mine, actually (we went to high school together, he kicked me out of his band before I turned 21, we tell each other stuff we wouldn’t tell anybody else, etc.) and I released his debut album, All Hell, back in 2012 to a wild, completely unexpected wave of praise and adoration. Rightfully so, if you ask me—it was a game-changer, like if Burial produced Outlaw Country performed by Fleetwood Mac with Scott Walker behind the glistening golden microphone. Phew! Lou Reed even came calling and who can blame him? Lots of things happened since then, including two stellar albums on Sub Pop [Records], before Daughn receded from the public eye, choosing to live his life in other fascinating ways. I swear I'm not lying when I say he won a damn Emmy for LeBron James's all-time high-score game (Daughn's a professional [audio/visual] production guy now) and he scored the soundtrack for a Nicolas Cage movie earlier this year, too—Arcadian—if you wanna go yank it out of a powered-down Redbox near you.
Since, like, 2016, he's been privately recording new songs and would occasionally release them in little EP’s online, then, scrub them from The Internet a few weeks later. Maddening for us fans, but you have to respect it—did he pioneer a new form of "limited edition" music, restricted not in quantity, but time?? I don’t intend to put out any other records anytime soon, but I had to memorialize these incredible sessions on vinyl since somehow, no one else had come asking. We pressed up 200 copies and they sound and look fantastic. If you’d like to order a copy in the United States, it’s $27 total sent via PayPal to whitedenim@gmail.com and an extra [$20,] if you want two copies. That’s it; no Bandcamp or Big Cartel or Toast or UberVinylRoxx services otherwise. We’re too old and stubborn to try to figure that stuff out. PayPal still feels like the cutting-edge vanguard of digital financial transactions to me, but if you want to pay me via Venmo or even CashApp, instead, just shoot me an email (same address) and I can make it happen. The records are in my living room and ready to ship immediately. In addition to this handsome vinyl package, I believe The Burgundy Daughns is streaming on all the usual suspects right now, as well—he’s in charge of squaring that away, not me—so, if you want to hear the whole thing without paying a red cent, there’s, also, that. I uploaded a full MP3, the old-fashioned way, for the track “White On White,” which should be clickable right there, right now. The whole record is this good, I swear! Here’s a recent picture of Daughn, since I’m in full-on promotional mode and photos of the artists can really go a long way.
As Korvette explained, he and Daughn Gibson went to high school and were in a band together way back when and also, lists releases as part of Pearls & Brass, The Elated, adn (we believe) The Ultimate Warriors to his name. Additionally, under his real name, Josh Martin, as Korvette also mentioned, Gibson released a 2003 album titled Mary & Mars with fellow musicians Sharon Gilchrist and Ben Wright, a 2016 EP with Jose Vilches entitled Create This Way, a 2017 single called “Flying,” and Double Bouble EP also in 2017 with Vic Sounds. Gibson has music composition credits listed on IMDb as Martin, along with Kristin Gundred/Gundred-Martin AKA KRISTIN KONTROL for 2020 film Smiley Face Killers and Nicolas Cage’s 2024 film, Arcadian; the latter showcases Gibson’s “You Don’t Know My Heart,” which now appears within The Burgundy Daughns. Gibson also very recently started running his own Twitter, or rather, X page called Werewolves Taking Pleasure (@werewhoas,) which he recently described as his “new Photoshop/collage/A.I. art project.”
Gibson confirmed on X, as Korvette alluded to within his email, that the songs from The Burgundy Daughns previously appeared across a collection of EP’s released and son scrubbed from The Internet around 2016, Vas 1, Kriminelle Energie, and Vas 2: Le Duc de Vas. It’s really quite the sprawling, genre-eschewing collection of 12 songs, which we would go as far as to say encompass elements from all of his previous releases, All Hell, Me Moan, and Carnation, all housed within one concise starter kit-esque collection. We would say Korvette’s “Burial-produced Outlaw Country performed by Fleetwood Mac with Scott Walker behind the glistening golden microphone” comparison isn’t too far off, but Gibson definitely opens himself up to additional and unique genres and sub-genres outside of his typical Alt. Country comfortability. And let’s just call a spade a spade, there would be no Orville Peck if there wasn’t a Daughn Gibson before him. Daughn Gibson walked, so Orville Peck could run! Daughn Gibson’s The Burgundy Daughns is now available on White Denim Records both on digital streaming platforms and $27.00 vinyl records. It isn’t available on Bandcamp, Toast, or UberVinylRoxx, as Matt Korvette explained above, although, two tracks, “White On White” and “You Don't Know My Heart,” are, however, available online, likely for a limited time.
Daughn Gibson (SOURCE: Yellow Green Red Substack newsletter)
