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After more than a decade in NYC, Anthony D’Amato headed west for his new album, At First There Was Nothing, relocating to American Fork, UT, to collaborate with acclaimed songwriter and producer Joshua James. Bristling with joyful energy and piercing insight, the record marks D’Amato’s first first LP in six years, and the growth is palpable, with sprawling, unpredictable arrangements accompanying some of his most gripping and incisive lyrical work yet. Drawing on everything from hazy ’60s soul to rootsy ’70s rock, the songs are loose and playful, even as they grapple with faith and trust, mortality and loss, resilience and regret, all set against sweeping sonic backdrops every bit as epic and rugged as the landscapes that inspired them.
Born and raised in New Jersey, D’Amato first rose to international attention with <a href="spotify:album:3Fst7tY2515NrRKyBw0Lxh" data-name="The Shipwreck from the Shore">The Shipwreck from the Shore</a>, his 2014 debut for New West Records. Inspired in part by time spent studying with the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, the album garnered rave reviews on both sides of the pond, with NPR inviting D’Amato for a Tiny Desk Concert and lauding that “he writes in the tradition of Bruce Springsteen or Josh Ritter" and Uncut proclaiming that his songwriting "echoes with early Bob Dylan." D’Amato followed it up in 2016 with the Mike Mogis-produced <a href="spotify:album:6HWn32aAafbuFyZgEuXy88" data-name="Cold Snap">Cold Snap</a>, which earned him his first national TV appearance along with an Artist You Need To Know nod from Rolling Stone, who hailed his “folk music raised on New Jersey grit.”
Born and raised in New Jersey, D’Amato first rose to international attention with <a href="spotify:album:3Fst7tY2515NrRKyBw0Lxh" data-name="The Shipwreck from the Shore">The Shipwreck from the Shore</a>, his 2014 debut for New West Records. Inspired in part by time spent studying with the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, the album garnered rave reviews on both sides of the pond, with NPR inviting D’Amato for a Tiny Desk Concert and lauding that “he writes in the tradition of Bruce Springsteen or Josh Ritter" and Uncut proclaiming that his songwriting "echoes with early Bob Dylan." D’Amato followed it up in 2016 with the Mike Mogis-produced <a href="spotify:album:6HWn32aAafbuFyZgEuXy88" data-name="Cold Snap">Cold Snap</a>, which earned him his first national TV appearance along with an Artist You Need To Know nod from Rolling Stone, who hailed his “folk music raised on New Jersey grit.”
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