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Sumday doesn't so much represent a stylistic change for Grandaddy as it does a change in attitude. The Sophtware Slump, its predecessor, was a superb album, combining low budget experimentalism and country-tinged American pop to evoke bands as diverse as the Flaming Lips, Neil Young and ELO. Sumday finds the Modesto, California band pretty much conducting business as usual, though this time their mood is noticeably brighter. "I got not reason to be / weathered and withery / like in the season of the old me," frontman Jason Lytle sings on opener (and first single) "Now It's On", demonstrating a newfound optimi
Sumday doesn't so much represent a stylistic change for Grandaddy as it does a change in attitude. The Sophtware Slump, its predecessor, was a superb album, combining low budget experimentalism and country-tinged American pop to evoke bands as diverse as the Flaming Lips, Neil Young and ELO. Sumday finds the Modesto, California band pretty much conducting business as usual, though this time their mood is noticeably brighter. "I got not reason to be / weathered and withery / like in the season of the old me," frontman Jason Lytle sings on opener (and first single) "Now It's On", demonstrating a newfound optimism that rears its sunny head throughout the album. "The Group Who Couldn't Say" could have been a bitter tirade against the music industry, but it's not, saved by Lytle's fragile voice, which is sweet without being naïve. The observational "Stray Dog and the Chocolate Shake", meanwhile, is carried along by a bouncy keyboard riff that's reminiscent of Under the Western Freeway's "A.M. 180", but with more playful lyrics. Even the slower, more melancholy songs like "Yeah Is What We Had", "The Warming Sun" and "Saddest Vacant Lot in All the World" retain the epic quality that is rapidly becoming Grandaddy's trademark sound: simple music played on a grand scale. --Robert Burrow
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Manufacturer: VVR
Release date: 30 December 2003
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 5033197222325
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