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Alfa 9
12+ albums
britishpsychedelicNeo-PsychedeliaPsychedelic Rockspace rock
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Alfa 9 release their second album Gone To Ground in 2013 on Blow Up Records. The self produced twelve song set was recorded in their home town of Newcastle-under-Lyme at their own Dungeon Studios. Mixed in London by Myles Clarke (The Who / Pete Townsend). After several years had gone by between the release of their debut Then We Begin the band have remerged with Gone To Ground. Now a four piece with the addition of Andrew Vernon on drums: Phil Mason on Guitar / Vocals; Ali Heath - Guitar / Vocals; Lean Jones - Guitar / keyboards; and Andrew Vernon - Drums Through recording in their own Dungeon Studios - "in reality a garage behind a bookies with an old disused walk-in fridge as the live room!" says guitarist Leon Jones - 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 country-rock 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 was recorded over six months) 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 b
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