2012-12-03
When Under the Western Freeway was first released in 1997, I wrote it off as uninteresting and a bit too quiet. Perhaps my tastes have changed over the years. Upon listening to Grandaddy's first full-length in its entirety, fifteen years later I'm a convert. Consisting of Jason Lytle's breathy vocals over fuzzy guitar and analog synthesizer, Grandaddy's music has a dreamy quality to it. Add to this anthemic crescendos and themes of loneliness and you end up with pretty, though depressing stuff. Rebecca RuthJACK JOHNSON
Sleep Through the Static
The Icicles
A Hundred Patterns
The Raconteurs
Consolers of The Lonely
WARM IN THE WAKE
Gold Dust Trail
BUTCH WALKER AND THE BLACK WIDOWS
The Spade
Sarah Jane Scouten
When the Bloom Falls from The Rose
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