"With hints of the cure, industrial, Patti Smith, and even Godflesh, Gull makes the kind of music that is as atmospheric as it is threatening. The new song, 'The Time We Have,' could have fit right on The Head on the Door is Robert Smith was a little less lovey-dovey and a lot more Cenobite."
— Punknews
Watch the video for "The Time We Have", via Punknews, here:
Nathaniel Rappole’s solo project, Gull, was conceived on an endangered wildlife preserve in Front Royal, VA in 1999, and has been publicly active since 2007. Gull has recorded a 7", 6 EPs, 3 full lengths, and has traveled vigorously—playing venues, on the streets, and in the wilds of Canada, United States, Mexico, Europe, Kenya, and SE Asia. Gull has toured in support of White Rabbits, Tres Mts, and RNDM, and has shared the bar arena with the likes of Silver Apples, Girl Talk, Deerhoof, Adrian Belew, Sleaford Mods, Ruby The Hatchet, Panda Bear, Mdou Moctar, Dan Deacon, and Melt Banana.
In 2012, Gull was featured in a movie about music in Mexico called Hecho en Mexico, and in 2014 he produced and performed in a documentary on street/public music in Kenya (Street Muse: Kenya), which premiered at The Fowler Museum at UCLA in Los Angeles, CA. In April of 2016, Gull performed and answered questions pertaining to his travels at TedX in Richmond, VA, and in 2017 he contributed an improvised performance to Grotesque Tables ii- Noah Wall's anagramic reimagining of Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies deck of cards from 1975. In December, 2019, Gull went to Thailand and Laos to film a new doc in an ongoing series about musical ecology and culture around the world.
Relative Stranger is being released August 21st through Lagom Audio/Visual. Preorder, here.
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