Patton Magee- "Be On Time"

Patton Magee’s “Be On Time” storms forth as a rugged, lone-wolf riposte to the gleaming excess of industry titans, its raw, hand-crafted charm—etched into a lo-fi 16mm video for mere pennies—unfurling a New American Western Rock’n Roll vision that channels Marty Robbins’s “Big Iron” with a sly, wicked edge. In a snow-dusted chapel standoff, Magee’s debut melds the spectral grit of Lee Hazlewood and Johnny Cash with the unhinged sprawl of King Gizzard’s “Eyes Like the Sky,” weaving song and story into a jagged, bullet-torn tapestry that’s as intimate as it is defiantly untamed.

David Walker