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The Ghosts Are Coming Home

by CR and The Nones

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1.
The Ghosts Are Coming Home 03:47
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2.
The Long Game 03:37
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3.
It's Not Personal 03:07
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4.
The Bridge 03:59
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5.
Mind and Body 03:53
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6.
After the War 04:30
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7.
Side Eye 03:06
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8.
The Hills of Pennsylvania 03:25
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9.
Memory Ave 03:23
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10.
Concessions 03:13
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about

For Jersey City guitarist and songwriter Chris Gennone, it’s been a long road to The Ghosts Are Coming Home, the second album from his five-piece outfit CR and the Nones. Ghosts, the Nones’ second record and first on Magic Door, is a culmination of the sound and aesthetic Gennone has been building across many years and multiple bands. Its combination of expansiveness and introspection recalls The War on Drugs or early My Morning Jacket, and the ten tracks here showcase sincerity and heart that are impossible to resist.

Recalling past Garden State guitar music, Gennone’s soulful vocals and his band’s driving hooks invoke roads, journeys, and forward motion in general. His sound has always been propulsive, and with C.R. and the Degenerates, his previous band, he operated at a pace to match. The Degenerates released five full albums from 2016 through 2018. The band rechristened itself as CR and the Nones following a few lineup changes in 2019, retaining the core of Gennone, lead/slide guitarist Jim Abbott, and bassist John Dewitt. The CR train kept chugging along, and the band released the excellent Living in Fear on Favorite Friend in 2020.

A certain global-scale event later that year put the brakes on the band’s prolificity, though, and the isolation brought on by the pandemic as well as its huge chunks of unfilled time allowed Gennone to be more considered, thoughtful, and purposive in his songwriting. Being forced out of his normal songwriting process and comfort zone opened Gennone to new influences, and his resulting growth as a songwriter is evident in Ghosts. Some of these influences were nearby – friends in the NYC/NJ music scene contributed both ideas and sounds – and others, not so much. Gennone specifically recalls listening to Brian Eno nonstop while recording Ghosts, and the synth sounds and ambient textures that underpin much of the album are certainly a testament to that.

Ghosts was written while Gennone was dealing with personal struggles as well as lockdown, but it’s not a bleak record by any means. On “Memory Ave”, for example, a lament about inescapable chaos turns into an ode of gratitude to those who have given support throughout it all. Gennone’s voice and Ryley Crowe's pedal steel guitar pair beautifully here, and despite the hard times chronicled here, it’s impossible not to hear and share the joy CR and the Nones felt while recording The Ghosts Are Coming Home. - Zach Romano

credits

released September 8, 2023

CR Gennone - Vocals, Guitars, Piano, Synths, Tambourine, Bass (6)
James Abbott - Guitars, Lap Steel
John Dewitt - Bass
Tom Barrett - Drums

Featuring:
Donnie Law - Guitars (1, 9)
Skylar Adler - Drums (1, 6, 7, 9)
Ryley Crowe - Pedal Steel (3, 9)
Kyle Wilkerson - Vocals (9)
Chris Fox - Guitars (9)
Ross Burlingame - Piano (10)

Engineered and Produced by CR Gennone
Additional Engineering by Skylar Adler and Andrew Merclean
Mixed by Ray Ketchem at Magic Door Recording in Montclair, NJ
Mastered by Nick Bolton at Bolton Sound in Jersey City, NJ

All songs written by CR Gennone (except where noted)

Track 1 co-written with Andrew Merclean
Track 5 co-written with James Abbott
Tracks 7, 9 co-written with Chris Fox
Track 10 co-written with Ross Burlingame

Cover photo by Andrew Merclean
Cover design by CR Gennone and Evan Moore

Dose of Darkness (ASCAP)

Special thanks: James and Nicole Abbott, John Dewitt, Tom Barrett, Donnie Law, Skylar Adler, Ryley Crowe, Kyle Wilkerson, Chris and Courtney Fox, Ross Burlingame, Andrew Merclean, Ray Ketchem, Jeff Zeigler, Nick Bolton, Tom Gallo, Nick LaFalce, Zach Romano, Sammy Lenore, Evan Moore, Josh Bartsch, Harrison Bieth, Ted Marker, John Fecile, Darrell Norrell, Ed and Alice Magdziak, Dash and Val Coombs, Pete Egan, Rory Hogan, Casey Moleterri, Shelby Vittek, Hayden Blackmon, Steve Sandler, and Josh Stavola.

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