Last Place
A decade after their last album, Grandaddy pick up where they left off, for better and for worse.
Stephin Merritt loves a good gimmick, doesn’t he? There was his Magnetic Fields magnum opus, 1999’s 69 Love Songs—exactly what it sounds like—and his subsequent experiments with form and instrumentation: i, Distortion, and Realism. While those latter gimmicks purposely limited Merritt, perhaps as a means to rein in…
If there’s one thing Grandaddy have always had in their locker it’s big hooks and ‘Last Place’ is no exception.
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It's as though Grandaddy have never been away: this is an album loaded with ideas and melodies, on occasion hitting the dizzy heights of their early years.
Much to the delight of sensitive slackers everywhere, synth-rockers Grandaddy are back from the dead with Last Place, their first record sin...
It's been 11 years since Grandaddy released an album. They've come back just in time. Grandaddy's textured, robot-core sleeper rock makes a natural comeback, with fresh eyes.
When they first emerged in the late ’90s, Jason Lytle and chums were occasionally seen by the press as poor cousins of the Flaming Lips. It was a
Grandaddy's first new album in more than a decade, their fifth in total, 'Last Place' is intimate, personal and painfully relatable.
Grandaddy may sound trendy, but they started doing this long before it was cool.
Grandaddy - Last Place review: I just moved here, and I don't wanna live here anymore.