Photo Credit: Vivian Wang
March 25, 2024: Hailed by Rolling Stone as “the supergroup-you-need-to-know,” Fantastic Cat returns this summer with their intoxicated/ing new album, Now That’s What I Call Fantastic Cat, out June 7 via Missing Piece Records. That’s right: we love this instrument-swapping, vocal-trading foursome so much we’re paying them for the privilege of begging you to listen to their music. Today, the band released the unhinged video for addictive lead single “All My Fault” and announced an extensive summer headline/festival run kicking off June 7 at Brooklyn Made in NYC. Later this week, they’ll begin a month-long tour with Low Cut Connie, which includes stops at The Troubadour in Los Angeles and The Fillmore in San Francisco. Find a full list of tour dates below and visit their website for more details.
Watch the official video for “All My Fault” via YouTube
“We wrote “All My Fault” just before our first show at the Bowery Ballroom, right around the time we realized we didn’t have enough songs for our first show at the Bowery Ballroom,” the band explains in a joint statement released through their court appointed mediator. “This project started as an escape from all the self-seriousness of the music business, and this song in particular takes the piss out of the ego and delusion that goes with it.”
Featuring four different critically-acclaimed singer/songwriters who’ve appeared everywhere from NPR’s Tiny Desk and the New York Times to Bonnaroo and Cayamo, Fantastic Cat—lead singer Brian Dunne, lead singer Anthony D’Amato, lead singer Don DiLego, and lead singer Mike Montali—first came together in 2022 for their award-eligible debut, The Very Best Of Fantastic Cat, which Rolling Stone dubbed “a wildly satisfying collection” and “equal doses of Dylan and Springsteen.” The record earned the group their national TV debut on CBS Saturday Morning, sold out headline dates around the US and Europe, a performance at the Sundance Film Festival, and a song in the Paramount+ series Tulsa King. The following year, the velvet-suited quartet collaborated with all-star producer Butch Walker on a 50th anniversary recording of “Band On The Run,” which prompted Paul McCartney (Wings, The Beatles) to question his entire life’s work.
“I’m absolutely honored to welcome Fantastic Cat to Missing Piece Records,” says CEO Michael Krumper. “I think they’re one of the best live bands I’ve seen since I started my company, with a perfect balance of highbrow songwriting and lowbrow humor. As a label owner, you dream of finding a band like this, one that’ll enable you to take a massive tax deduction at the end of the year. These guys have write-off written all over them.”
Where the group’s debut showcased the quartet as individual songwriters, Now That’s What I Call Fantastic Cat finds the band writing collectively for the first time, leaning into their respective strengths to craft an alternately poignant and absurdist portrait of a modern world populated by disgraced heroes, disenchanted dreamers, and dead end jobs. The songs here are at once hopeful and mordant, reckoning with a reality less shiny than it seemed by refusing to succumb to the weight of disappointment, and the band’s performances are relentlessly buoyant to match, fueled by infectious hooks, lush harmonies, and unpredictable arrangements. Think CSNY if none of them were famous, or The Traveling Wilburys if none of them were famous, or the Eagles if they really didn’t get along.
Catch Fantastic Cat live and you’ll get the picture as each member bounces around the stage, swapping instruments and trading vocals, sometimes within the very same song. Or better yet, stream the new album 7,000,000 times in a row right when it comes out so we seem like geniuses for signing them. Either way, we’ll see you at the Grammys.
Now That’s What I Call Fantastic Cat tracklist:
1) Oh Man!
2) Little Bit Broken
3) Later On
4) So Glad You Made It
5) The Hammer & The Nail
6) I Don’t Know Why
7) Go All Night
8) Edinburgh
9) Sometimes Your Heroes Let You Down
10) All My Fault
11) Head Down, Shots Fired
Tour Dates:
3/28 – Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater *
3/30 – Boise, ID – Treefort Music Hall *
4/1 – Salt Lake City, UT – The State Room *
4/3 – Prosser, WA – Brewminatti ^
4/4 – Seattle, WA – Tractor Tavern *
4/5 – White Rock, BC – Blue Frog Studios ^
4/6 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom *
4/7 – Vancouver, BC – Rickshaw Theater *
4/10 – Livermore, CA – Almost Famous ^
4/11 – Healdsburg, CA – Little Saint *
4/13 – San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore *
4/14 – Hollywood, CA – The Troubadour *
4/15 – San Diego, CA – The Casbah *
4/18 – Phoenix, AZ – The Rhythm Room ^
4/20 – Dallas, TX – The Kessler Theater *
4/21 – Houston, TX – The Heights Theater *
4/23 – Austin, TX – Antone’s *
4/24 – Austin, TX – Antone’s *
4/27 – Lowell, MA – The Town & The City Festival
5/2 – Atlanta, GA – The Garden Club *
5/24 – Boulder, CO – Roots Music Project ^
5/25 – Colorado Springs, CO – Meadowgrass
5/26 – Denver, CO – Globe Hall ^
6/7 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Made ^
6/8 – Amagansett, NY – Stephen Talkhouse ^
6/12 – Hershey, PA – Englewood ^
6/13 – Hagerstown, MD – Hub City Vinyl ^
6/14 – Charlottesville, VA – The Southern ^
6/15 – Asheville, NC – Pisgah Brewing Co ^
6/16 – Decatur, GA – Eddie’s Attic ^
6/18 – Elkton, MD – Elkton Music Hall ^
6/19 – Wayne, PA – 118 North ^
6/20 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair ^
6/21 – Greenfield, MA – Green River Festival
6/27 – Pawtucket, RI – The Met ^
6/28 – Burlington, VT – Higher Ground ^
6/29 – Katonah, NY – American Roots Music Festival
9/27-29 – Sisters, OR – Sisters Folk Festival
1/26-31/25 – Miami, FL – The Rock Boat XXIV
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w/ Low Cut Connie
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