Grandaddy
TRACK: Palace Winter feat. Jason Lytle – ‘The Deeper End’: ‘Think Kraftwerk playing country’
SINGER-guitarist Carl Coleman and pianist-producer Caspar Hesselager are the musicians behind Danish-Australian duo Palace Winter; they’ve been plying a line in grand, intelligent pop since Waiting For The World To Turn, their debut album, back in 2016. They’ve readied the more synthy textures of their third album, …Keep Dreaming, Buddy, which they’ll be unveiling come …
Track: The Lazy Eyes – Cheesy Love Song
Everything old may well be new again – there is a degree of amusement that a fair percentage of popular contemporary music is very similar to stuff that has come before. But sometimes music is like Shakespeare: it’s not the about the story itself but the way it’s being told. Coming from Sydney, the debut …
Album Review: Grandaddy – Last Place
In the early years of the last decade, I saw Grandaddy as one of a trio of bands that opened the doors to a style of music I still occasionally refer to as ’Cosmic Americana’. The other two acts were Mercury Rev and The Flaming Lips, both of which had enjoyed crossover hit albums that …
Not Forgotten: Grandaddy – Sumday
In the process of comprehensively out-OK Computered Radiohead with the stunning The Sophtware Slump in 2000, Grandaddy had gained an enviable reputation for musical brilliance, but that hadn’t really translated into sales. However, with a line of cosmic americana shot through with a thread of melancholy, Grandaddy’s career had organically grown from self-releasing EPs and …
Not Forgotten: Grandaddy – The Sophtware Slump
A few days ago, a section of social media broke. There was no huge public outcry, and certainly, the vast percentage of users barely noticed and those that did notice, simply didn’t care. For those of us among that smaller percentage, it was important. It was big. Jason Lytle mentioned he was working on a …
A buyers guide to Grandaddy
Grandaddy were one of those bands who struggled to catch a break. They had all the talent in the world, great tunes, a fine songwriter in Jason Lytle and had a lot more to offer than your average five piece rock band peddling their wares at the turn of the millennium. Sound-wise they were not …
NOT FORGOTTEN – JASON LYTLE – YOURS TRULY, THE COMMUTER
“The last thing I heard I was left for dead” – Now that’s an arresting way to open your solo debut, especially if you were the main creative force of one of the best, yet almost universally overlooked bands of your generation. Sometimes you just don’t realise what you had until it’s gone. Grandaddy were …