His first full length recorded with a band, featuring John Truscinski and Justin Tripp. 'Time Off' is Steve's most affecting, accessible, and articulate work of pure songcraft to date, with a new emphasis on vocals. Here, Gunn the guitarist masterfully deploys the discursive, deconstructed blues style, at once transcendent and methodical, that has become his signature. Close listening reveals the influence of Delta and Piedmont country blues, ecstatic free jazz, and psych, as well as Gnawa and Carnatic music, on the continually unfolding compositions.