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Synths revisited.
17 years, 7 months ago at Oct 4 21:46
Grandaddy could be easily summarised as "Slow rock with synths"... but it's so much more than that!I used to dislike synths in rock, probably because it reminded me too much of some crappy stuff from the 80's, but the way Grandaddy uses them made me change my mind: here they add space, they put you in a kind of peaceful trance, they sometimes are funny little noises but without eve... read more
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They claim that their favourite band is ELO, but you wouldn't know it to hear Grandaddy's first full-length album. Indeed, it's only the Californian quintet's beards that suggest any kinship with 1970's pomp-rock. On the evidence of Under The Western Freeway, there's very little worth doing in music that Sebadoh, Pavement and Pixies haven't already done between them. Some people may remember surprise radio hit "AM180", a jaunty clattering exercise in raucous fuzz pop. In its way, it's a typical Grandaddy song: lyrics whose downcast nature you wouldn't notice thanks to his colleagues' freewheeling clatter; and the unmis
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Manufacturer: Big Cat
Release date: 28 October 1997
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 5033197009025
Release date: 28 October 1997
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 5033197009025
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