Alfa 9: Gone To Ground (CD)

Alfa 9

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Label:: Blow Up
Year of recording ca.:: 2013
UPC/EAN:: 5030408056625
Release date:: 11.3.2013

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Alfa 9 "Gone To Ground" - their 2nd album, and follows their debut "Then We Begin", recently described as "one of the best albums of the last decade" by Shindig. ALFA 9 may have slowed down, but they didn't go away. The band took things back to basics, focusing on three-four minute songs, great harmonies and losing the dirt from the guitars and the keyboards. Citing the '60s and early '70s folk and countryrock of The Byrds, in particular, Gene Clark, Gram Parsons and The Flying Burrito Brothers, the Paisley Underground bands of early '80s LA and signature influence The Stone Roses, "Gone To Ground" (which only took six months to record) channels the same love of the past as such contemporaries as The See See, Tame Impala, The Quarter After, Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Beachwood Sparks. "I guess the sort of stuff we were becoming influenced by was far more subtly produced, so it was a pretty natural move," says Leon of the album's more spacious production, marked by rich mid-60s harmonies, ringing 12 strings and naturally overdriven and fuzztone guitars. "Gone To Ground" deserves a place on the record shelf of anyone susceptible to organic jangle and fine melodies. File under: Psych, Folk, Rock.

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,,Bei allem vokalen und instrumentalen Können beweisen Alfa9 auch Humor, wenn sie im Intro zum Roger-Mc-Guinn’schen “Green Green Grass Grows” Anklänge an “Poor Boy” von den Lords zu Gehör bringen – die im Waschzettel hergestellte Nähe zu Smokie ist nicht nachzuvollziehen." (Good Times, Juni / Juli 2013)