Hanni El Khatib – Will the Guns Come Out – review

(Innovative Leisure)San Francisco-raised El Khatib says his debut album is "for anyone who's ever been shot or hit by a train - knife-fight music". A former marketing/advertising type, he's probably never experienced anything remotely similar himself, but his infatuation with bad-boy retro-masculinity has led him to fashion his sound around 50s garage rock. Songs are taut and brief, the guitar/drum arrangements stripped to absolute basics and El Khatib squawks his lines as if his switchblade is ...

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