Does a Band Need a Style?

Greetings!

I’ve been away from my blog while working on music for my new band, Gunslinger Saints.  We have enough material to release a CD, once our voices have gotten stronger and my mixing skills improve.

However, we are missing one key element: style.

So far, we have songs that are acoustic-folk, hip hop, techno, alternative, acoustechno, punk, and adult contemporary…  And one song that could barely pass as gospel, minus the lyrics.  There doesn’t seem to be a trend throughout our music.  Beck got away with it on “Odelay,” but at least there was a cohesive retro-sampled sound to his work.  We are missing that.

Do we need to re-style our music to fit one genre, or should we release a CD that transcends a single category?

As for fashion, we have a militant look to our band – If we can’t “wow” people with our music, at least we can always make them ill-at-ease with our presence.

At any rate, we are still making progress, and I will update this blog as we move along.  I will update the Musician’s Resources page later today.

Best wishes!
Shannon