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| GRANDADDY Announces Brand New Studio Album Blu Wav due out February 16, 2024 via Dangerbird Records Blu Wav album pre-order “it sounds so good.” – NPR “iconic indie rock outfit” – FADER “One of Modesto, California’s greatest exports” – BrooklynVegan “Grandaddy still vibrate on a different emotional level in 2023.” – FLOOD “Compared to their contemporaries—Mercury Rev, Sparklehorse, the Flaming Lips—Grandaddy excelled at demystifying the terrifying unknown, even if that familiarity still bred contempt.” – Pitchfork |
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| Photo Credit: Dustin Aksland Legendary indie-rock band Grandaddy has announced a brand new studio album Blu Wav set for release February 16, 2024 via Dangerbird Records. A prolific storyteller, Jason Lytle is inspired by the overwhelming beauty of nature to the mundane moments that spark life’s strongest memories. With the album title Blu Wav meant to be a literal mash-up of “bluegrass” and “new wave,” the new collection has a distinct feel, a uniform vibe and a somewhat unexpected sound. It was conceived as Grandaddy maestro Jason Lytle was driving through the Nevada desert and Patti Page’s “Tennessee Waltz” came across the classic country station on the radio. He was immediately intrigued by the possibilities of what it might sound like to keep the slow sway and sweet, simple lyrics of the bluegrass waltz while adding layers of dense synthesizers and the electronics of new wave. It incorporates the lo-fi lushness and sometimes-psychedelic orchestration Grandaddy is known for with Lytle’s first foray into true country. Seven of its 13 songs are waltzes and as Lytle notes, “there’s an inordinate amount of pedal steel.” Grandaddy recently celebrated their legacy with a series of 20th anniversary reissues including the acclaimed Sumday Twunny box set, which earned a Pitchfork ‘Best New Reissue.” Lytle also contributed vocals to a posthumous Sparklehorse album by request of his friend and fellow psychedelic pop auteur Mark Linkous’ family. Grandaddy has released five official LPs, most recently 2017’s ‘Last Place.’ Grandaddy members include Jason Lytle, Aaron Burtch, Jim Fairchild, Tim Dryden and the late Kevin Garcia, who passed away in 2017. |
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| Blu Wav album art Blu Wav Tracklist: 1. Blu Wav 2. Cabin in My Mind 3. Long as I’m Not the One 4. You’re Going to Be Fine and I’m Going to Hell 5. Watercooler 6. Let’s Put this Pinto on the Moon 7. On a Train or Bus 8. Jukebox App 9. Yeehaw Ai in the Year 2025 10. Ducky, Boris and Dart 11. East Yosemite 12. Nothin’ to Lose 13. Blu Wav Buh Bye Follow Grandaddy: Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple Music |
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