An outfit spearheaded by the Jersey City songwriter and guitarist Chris Gennone, CR & The Nones brings us 10 tracks of thoughtful, sincere and personal stories on this sophomore affair while enlisting some excellent guest musicians, too.<\/p>\n
The hazy synth of the title track opens the listen, where Donnie Law\u2019s warm guitar and Skylar Adler\u2019s fluid drumming suit Gennone\u2019s heartfelt singing. \u201cThe Long Game\u201d then follows with a distinct dreaminess that welcomes Tom Barrett\u2019s thumping drums and John Dewitt\u2019s precise bass playing for the alt-rock meets folk-rock presence.<\/p>\n
Pedal steel is used strategically on the listen, as Ryley Crowe\u2019s aching skills populate the flowing melodies of \u201cIt\u2019s Not Personal,\u201d while James Abbott\u2019s lap steel complements Dewitt\u2019s bass prowess across the intimate and lush album highlight, \u201cMind And Body.\u201d<\/p>\n
The back half of the listen offers the cinematic, almost spiritual songwriting of \u201cAfter The War,\u201d where Adler’s firm drums and Gennone\u2019s dense bass make for a thicker formula. Nearing the end, the bare \u201cThe Hills Of Pennsylvania\u201d is a more soulful venture that makes great use of soothing backing vocals and Gennone\u2019s falsetto and cautious piano playing.<\/p>\n
The last two tracks are quite diverse, where \u201cMemory Ave\u201d places Kyle Wilkerson on vocals and Chris Fox on guitar amid the slight twang of cosmic Americana, and \u201cConcessions\u201d exits with Ross Burlingame\u2019s mature piano unfolding alongside the poetic storytelling. <\/p>\n
Gennone had been absorbing a lot of Brian Eno when penning this album, and it certainly shows in the ambient textures and strong attention to mood, and the similarities to My Morning Jacket and The War On Drugs are appreciated, too. There are no lack of hooks or beauty to be admired, either, and the unclassifiable nature of the songcraft certainly adds even more allure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":34965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10938],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-46837","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-cr-the-nones","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46837"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}