Pilot To Gunner Get Saved

Pilot To Gunner is from New York City, but not that part of NYC. Instead of torn denim and a collection of nice band badges, PTG revert to their nation's capital, Washington D.C. for inspiration.

Get Saved is their second full-length album and if someone had played it for me, without any given information, I would have guessed it would be a Dischord release from about 12 years ago. If you're a fan of the hardcore-post-hardcore scene from D.C. (Fugazi, Rites Of Spring, Girls Against Boys), PTG will unearth an emotion you may not have felt for eons. Get Saved captures all of the excitement that once was - the angular, buzzsawed guitar licks, emotive lyrics expelled by the monotone yet melodic voice/scream and steady, jazz-friendly beats.

The clincher for fans will be the fact that this record was produced and engineered by J. Robbins (yes, the man behind legends Jawbox and Burning Airlines), who has laid his Midas paws on a number of influential albums in his career as a producer (Jawbox's For Your Own Special Sweetheart, as well as Dismemberment Plan's Emergency & I). Robbins has recorded another album of heavily tense and exquisitely loud sturdy punk rock that manages to be a reference point for a scene that has been inactive for a number of years.