Vukovi - My God Has Got a Gun - Album Review

The Scottish duo go heavier and darker on their best album to date.

Vukovi are back with their fourth album My God Has Got a Gun released five

years to the date of Fall Better. Which was my introduction to the group and my first time reviewing them. Since their debut in 2017 and their follow-up ‘Fall Better,’ they mixed heaviness with pep but have got subtly heavier and murkier until we get to album four – My God Has Got A Gun. Fury on glorious display.

Opening things with ‘This Is My Life and My Trauma’ where taunting vocals repeat the title, setting the stage for both emotions and sound as we jump into GUNGHO. Filled with intense riffs that go full-hog as the Scottish duo don’t want to tip-toe around the album’s theming.

This is on full display with the title track, a personification of mental illness. Janine Shilstone’s blunt lyrics hit harder than any cleverly crafted metaphor that requires interpretation. The lyrics throughout MGHGAG a rich with grit, power, and emotion that are fearlessly dark, captivating, and daringly on the nose. It’s one of the things that draws me to them. They aren’t afraid to talk about mental health struggles and trauma.

This is all over a beautiful sonic soundscape of reverbed guitars and bouncy riffs that refuse to leave your head afterward. Hamish Reilly’s guitar mastery elevates the album’s themes, adding another level of ferocity and power. The thumping drums keep things racing along.

Vukovi aren’t afraid to evolve and change and every album has shown that, finding ways to tie their old soundscapes in with the new. My God Has Got a Gun finds a way to tie the best parts together in their best album to date and filled with raw, unapologetic, and rich lyrics to a technicolor soundscape.