Album Review of
Gone to the Ground

Written by Mark Gallo
July 23, 2017 - 12:00am EDT
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This is a brilliant album that will not appeal to a very wide swath of listeners. It doesn’t fit into a tidy category. The sound has been called alt country meets doom metal, and “Shell-shocked balladry disintegrates into noisy improvised sections.” It is an experiment with sounds. Led by vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and composer Antony DiGennaro, it features a wide variety of vocalist and musicians  (bassist David Tranchina, guitarist Max Kutner, various woodwinds player Ulrich Krieger, violist Lauren Elizabeth Baba, cellist James Barry, guitarist and vocalist Laura Jean Anderson, and harmony vocalists Matthew Cockcroft, Annie Lopresti, and David Powell) who share DiGennaro’s vision. The CD cover lists no personnel or song titles, which is somewhat challenging. It opens with “Drown,” which incorporates the voices and instrumentation effectively. The title cut is clearly an alt country number backed by the woodwinds. “Hatchett” utilizes the strings over vocals, and the closing “Goodbye” is dense with sounds. College radio might embrace this.