Album Review: The History of Gunpowder’s “Stained Glass, Rye, and Wax”
It starts with crackling vinyl and a thin, decaying string section. Then the horns come in, and there are goosebumps all over. The History of Gunpowder has never shied away from theatrics, integrating themselves into Montreal’s burlesque scene and pursuing the new and original without compromise, but these opening moments…