Boyish Invite You Into Gun: Debut Album Out Today On R&R, A Love Story Unfolding In a Surreal American Town

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12 September, 2025Print

Boyish Invite You Into Gun: Debut Album Out Today On R&R, A Love Story Unfolding In a Surreal American Town

Headline Tour Brings The Gun Show Across US, EU & UK This Fall, With Immersive Album Release Show Just Announced For St. Paul

Watch The "Prom" Video Here

Today, Boyish take you on a trip to Gun: a surreal love story set in an imaginary town, and their debut album out now on the record label R&R (Dijon, Mk.gee). Introducing "the lushest they've ever sounded" (Stereogum), and "playing out like a 3am dissociation" (Alternative Press), this set of 11 songs marks the start of an intrepid and colossal new chapter for a band that has been called "the next big thing in the queer indie scene" (Billboard). Since their early days rehearsing above a strip club called Pumps, Boyish's India Shore and Claire Altendahl have worked together like a gas station coffee and donut – the perfection combination. But Gun marks the first album they have made in a studio and on a tape machine, not an apartment on a laptop. Alongside Loren Humphrey (Cameron Winter, Lana Del Rey), they produced the record fully analog, with no click tracks and just five instruments, during two months spent in the uncanny village of Tuxedo Park, NY.

Listen to Gun, and watch the mystic new live video for album highlight "Prom," shot in a desolate home with director Ben Turok (Wednesday, MJ Lenderman, Mk.gee): HERE

"Prom" follows similarly stunning and otherworldly videos for "BIG" and "Jumbos,"further unfolding the narrative and characters that define Gun. Inspired by the 4-5 years that Boyish spent driving across middle-of-nowhere America, and the freak surfing accident that left Shore bedridden for three months, Gun is not a pro-gun album, but a pro-Gun album. The lore is heavy, but the music is heavier. With massive guitars, pulverizing drums, soaring lead vocals, ghostly overtures of strings and a devastating evolution of emotion, each song pummels you further down the rabbit hole, and deeper into a murky place where the atmosphere is thick, and time is indefinite.

"This album is a love story set in a small town in America," said Boyish, in a new interview with Wonderland. "We were trying to think of what to call the town our story takes place in, and asked ourselves, 'What's the most American name you can think of?' The answer was pretty easy. We wanted it to run like a play, where if there's a gun on the wall at the beginning of a play, by the end of it, it has to go off. Treating the music as if it all had to amount to something, and figuring out what all of these things are supposed to boil down to in the end. The end product is something that is fictional, but emotionally very true. It's really about longing for something, or someone, and how that feeling manifests itself in different ways."

While Boyish have collaborated with King Princess and Rachel Chinouriri, toured with The Beaches, Claud, Hippo Campus and spill tab, appeared on a compilation record alongside Taylor Swift, Julien Baker and Girl in Red, and were named winners of the LGBTQ+ Emerging Artist Award, all while amassing 30+ million streams, they are about to begin their first headline tour of Europe and the UK next week.

Following the international run, they will bring The Gun Show back home and across North America this October and November, with stops in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, Boston and New York, as well as a special, immersive album release show just announced today, at Art House North in St. Paul, MN on October 10th. Find the full list of dates below, and tickets HERE.