On their third album Fantastic Cat, dubbed “The Harlem Glodbetrotters of Americana,” don’t take themselves too seriously on the album called “Cat Out of Hell.” The four members have separate musical identities but come together as a cohesive unit delivering punchy and perfectly harmonized songs.
The chaos and perfection of their live shows is captured in a bottle on the new album which has been described as a “ramshackle house party of existential searchers, desperate romantics and barstool philosophers.”
The band is made up of solo artists Anthony D’Amato, Brian Dunne and Don DiLego along with Hollis Brown’s Mike Montaldi. The phrase “greater than the sum of their parts” has never been more appropriate as they compare their band to a four headed hydra with the lush harmonies of CSNY and the relentless interpersonal strife of The Eagles.
“Cat Out of Hell” is an album of songs about getting older, getting tired and getting back on the road anyway. With it’s rollicking rhythms, infectious sense of humor and spot-on vocals, Fantastic Cat have carved out a new direction for Americana music.