Last Place

Pitchfork 6.0/10 A decade after their last album, Grandaddy pick up where they left off, for better and for worse.

A.V. Club C 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…

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DIY 3/5 If there’s one thing Grandaddy have always had in their locker it’s big hooks and ‘Last Place’ is no exception.

The Independent 4/5 Also: Nadia Reid – Preservation, Chicano Batman – Freedom Is Free, Blanck Mass – World Eater, and Temples – Volcano

The Skinny 5/5 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.

Under The Radar 8.0/10 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.

Clash 7/10 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

The Observer 3/5 (Columbia)

Loud and Quiet 7/10 Grandaddy's first new album in more than a decade, their fifth in total, 'Last Place' is intimate, personal and painfully relatable.

Spectrum Culture 65% Grandaddy may sound trendy, but they started doing this long before it was cool.