Crewe, UK, trio The King’s Pistol will release their third EP, I Am the King sometime in 2022 through Majestic Mountain Records. Do I know when? Nope. Brave new world, kids. Preorders will reportedly start sometime in the next month or two. Beyond that, I got nothing.

So if I go into the rest of this review with a special kind of arrogant saunter, I hope you’ll know it’s not because I have information I’m not sharing, but rather because “arrogant saunter” is a crucial component of The King’s Pistol‘s music itself. To wit, the Rolling Stones-y guitar on “Disco Queen” and backing vocals on “Firewater,” the garage-style strum of “Don’t Even Think About It” and “I Am the King” and the acknowledged over-the-top nature of the declarations being made in the latter cut by guitarist Julian Casewell. The sheer fact that they called one of the six tracks on the EP “Snowblind” and that it’s not a cover. Ballsy. The King’s Pistol play the kind of rock and roll that wants you to sweat as much as the dudes playing it. It is a physical thing. Getting up, moving. A good beat and you can dance to it. It’s like they want you to think that as soon as they get off-stage they’re gonna hit on your girlfriend, but they’re not. They’re just having a good time.

And with a now-trilogy of EPs suitably dubbed ‘The Wild Night,’ The King’s Pistol seem to be interested in exactly the kind of energetic burst they offer here. The good time, unhindered. Freed from the expectations of another full-length album — it would be their third, and at some point they’d probably have to pull back on momentum or something or shitbird critics like me would call them too samey — they’re able to rip and tear into the modern-because-it-sounds-so-classic “Blood Moon Highway” with desert-conscious aplomb, building on the fuzz that emerges in the back end of “Snowblind” without ever really tipping over all the way into the tropes of heavier fare.

In that regard, I Am the King is bound to surprise some heads coming out through Majestic Mountain, which has a tendency to lean toward thicker tones and more nod-ready grooves, but rock and roll comes in many forms with many ideologies, and if The King’s Pistol wrap this series with a trip down the highway, some booze and the king meeting a queen and they’ve got a Chris Fielding (Conan) recording to back them up, well, that’s fairly enough earned, I should think. One has to wonder if the label might press up the other two EPs in the series as well, but let’s not overthink it. Whether you’ve heard 2019’s Vice and 2020’s Rip it Up or not, the barriers to entry here are pretty low. Songwriting, performance, energy, all from a band actively and unpretentiously looking to snag the fickle attentions of their audience for a bit time and a bit of chicanery. So it goes.

As the great Mel Brooks once intoned, “It’s good to be the king.”

Hold onto your socks. Track and PR wire info follow:

The King’s Pistol’s third ep, ‘I Am The King’ is an a no nonsense, balls to the wall Molotov cocktail of down right filthy rock and roll.

Pre-sale for this eclectically electric and raucously rowdy Ep starts soon from Majestic Mountain Records.

The lead single ‘Snow Blind’ is out now with a video by Witch Doctor General (Devil’s Witches)

Dripping with equal parts soul and sleaze, The King’s Pistol has taken their already salaciously clever songwriting and unflappably tight musicianship to the next level and beyond with their third EP release, ‘I Am The King’ which boasts a boisterously addictive collection of tracks fit to soundtrack the most debauched of celebrations or a simply misanthropic, table-flipping fisticuffs down at the local pub.

Brilliantly brash with lashings of psychedelic wonder and grimy disco fever, Pistol’s satiny, lyrical pomposity and chunky riffing, stomping Hendrixian interludes and blasting beats right on the money from drummer James Farmer, Andy Shardlow’s bombastic bass stylings tying this rousingly volatile little hand grenade into something akin to a giant, ticking time bomb of intoxicatingly thrilling, rollicking rock and roll revelry.

‘I Am The King’ Is coming for you, turn it up and get twisted with The King’s Pistol!

Tracklisting:
1. Don’t Even Think About It
2. Snowblind
3. Blood Moon Highway
4. Firewater
5. I Am the King
6. Disco Queen

‘I Am The King’ Recorded at Foel Studios
Engineered by: Chris Fielding
Mixed and mastered by: James Farmer Jnr

The King’s Pistol are:
Julian Casewell – Vocals and Guitar
Andy Shardlow – Bass
James Farmer Jnr – Drums

The King’s Pistol, “Snowblind” official video

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