“Gunslinger” unfurls with the drama of a Spaghetti western showdown as guitar echoes underneath narrative lyrics. German-based singer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer M. Byrd explains: “One day, I was on the Internet, and I stumbled on a pop-up,” he remembers. “It said, ‘You can go to a Ukrainian embassy in Berlin and be at war in a few days to fight’. I had been imagining guys and girls my age signing up, getting a weapon in their hands, and fighting a way. It drove me crazy. I couldn’t imagine this was happening.”