Just Like The Fambly Cat
After roughly a decade of slowly built, home-studio sonics, this well-liked band rides off into the Modesto sunset with the release of this album.
Like its music, Grandaddy's career never quite made it to full speed. Instead, it wandered—sometimes listlessly, often engrossingly—at a relaxed pace, occasionally stopping to sniff lovely little melodies, but mostly content to let the self-described "pretty mess by this one band" speak quietly for itself. Leader…
Grandaddy's final album before taking a long break serves as a timely reminder of the group's strengths, as they manage to pull themselves out of the slump they were in and deliver a fine epitaph.
After ten years of lo-fi indie brilliance Grandaddy have called it a day and leave us ‘Just Like The Fambly Cat’ as their epitaph.
The final release from Grandaddy suffers a bit for mistaking simple length for thematic scope.