Grandaddy - Sophtware Slump

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Sep 24, 2015 Sold Date

Sep 16, 2015 Start Date

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Article name: Sophtware Slump
Genre: Pop/Rock Product type: LP (Vinyl) Label: The Control Group Number of tracks: 11 Duration: 46:47

Tracklist LP - 1

1. Grandaddy - He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot 8:52 2. Grandaddy - Hewlett's Daughter 3:06 3. Grandaddy - Jed the Humanoid 4:18 4. Grandaddy - The Crystal Lake 5:00 5. Grandaddy - Chartsengrafs 2:51 6. Grandaddy - Underneath the Weeping Willow 2:40 7. Grandaddy - Broken Household Appliance National Forest 4:34 8. Grandaddy - Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground) 3:25 9. Grandaddy - E. Knievel Interlude (The Perils of Keeping It Real) 1:57 10. Grandaddy - Miner At the Dial-a-View 5:21 11. Grandaddy - So You'll Aim Towards the Sky 4:43

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Picking up where their Signal to Snow Ratio EP left off, Grandaddy's wittily named second album The Sophtware Slump upgrades the group's wry, country-tinged rock with electronic flourishes that run through the album like fiber-optic lines. Arpeggiated keyboards sparkle on "Hewlett's Daughter" and "The Crystal Lake," and wind, birds, and transmissions hover around the songs' peripheries, suggesting a Silicone Valley landscape. Jason Lytle's frail, poignant vocals provide a bittersweet counterpoint to the chugging guitars and shiny electronics that envelop him like a cockpit or a cubicle on "Chartsengrafs" and "Broken Household Appliance National Forest" and set the tone for melancholy ballads like "He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot," "Miner at the Dial-a-View," and "Jed the Humanoid," the story of a forgotten, alcoholic android. Lost pilots, robots, miners, and programmers try to find their way on The Sophtware Slump, an album that shares a spacy sadness with Sparklehorse's Good Morning Spider and Radiohead's OK Computer. Though it's a little more self-conscious and not quite as accomplished as either of those albums, it is Grandaddy's most impressive work yet and one of 2000's first worthwhile releases. ~ Heather Phares

Heather Phares