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 Post subject: Grandady -- new EP and album coming out
PostPosted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 8:16 am 
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Californian indie rockers GRANDADDY have revealed they have finished a new EP for release – and are progressing well with work on their new album.

The band are hard at work in their native Modesto trying to complete the follow-up to 2003’s acclaimed ’Sumday’.

But it seems likely there will be a separate EP to be released around the same time.

In a posting on the band’s official website drummer Aaron Burtch said: “We’re finished with an EP to be released at a later date. It’s got six songs including an old, old one called ’Florida’ which some of the local fans will recognise from when we used to play it in town years ago.”

Some of the songs that have been completed for the album are ’Campershell Dreams’, ’Disconnecty’, ’Where I’m Anymore’ and ’Jeez Louise’.

Burtch said of the album: “It’s pretty much in its’ later stages and a big portion of it is completely tracked. There are a couple of songs that have yet to be recorded, but the songs that are done are sounding really fine.”
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'Sumday' was wetter than whale song.

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Grandaddy is the Rush of the 00's - discuss.
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well i liked rush in high school and love grandaddy now. does that add to your argument?

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Grandaddy+MMJ+Boards of Canada = happy but overwhelmed Stu. When's the new Flaming Lips record coming out?
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Grandaddy+MMJ+Boards of Canada = happy but overwhelmed Stu. When's the new Flaming Lips record coming out?


the new track of the lips that i heard blew some serious goats. "Mr. Ambulance Driver" or something....

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Ahhh... new Grandaddy is good news. The songwriting on Sumday wasn't much to listen to, but the production was straight up ear-candy.

Truth be told, though, this next one better blow the pants off Sumday or... or else. Or else I'll have to keep listening to the oSoftware Slump. That'll show 'em.
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konstantinl Wrote:
'Sumday' was wetter than whale song.

what?
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Grandaddy is the Rush of the 00's - discuss.

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rush = tight, self-righteous overplaying; grandaddy = loose, self-conscious nuances. don't see it.
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rush = tight, self-righteous overplaying; grandaddy = loose, self-conscious nuances. don't see it.


and my response:

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. . . but the production was straight up ear-candy.


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It's mostly the glut of keyboards and references to technology v. the human condition that make me say that. That, and I didn't like Sumday.
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yeah, but how many bands have gone after that technology v. the human condition thing? i feel like everyone, but that might just be overanalyzing things. I guess Grandaddy are pretty overt about it. and they've got beards!!!! I dont really hear that stipulation in Rush (any more than i do with, say, Van Halen). Also, no beards on Rush.

i liked [i]Sumday[/i]. Not as much as [i]Sophtware Slump[/i], but it definitely kept me entertained, and their live show was awesome on that tour. I love that the drummer chain smoked the entire show. Something about a portly, bearded mnan lighting his cigarettes off one another while keeping the beat is pretty sweet.

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[quote="Cotton"]i liked [i]Sumday[/i]. Not as much as [i]Sophtware Slump[/i], but it definitely kept me entertained, and their live show was awesome on that tour. I love that the drummer chain smoked the entire show. Something about a portly, bearded mnan lighting his cigarettes off one another while keeping the beat is pretty sweet.[/quote]

Yep, this sums it up nicely. Sumday didn't have much depth, but I enjoyed it. Feels like on Sophtware he was chasing something, and on Sumday he was just making a record.

Color me titilated.

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Old Kentucky Wrote:
rush = tight, self-righteous overplaying

I don't hear any "overplaying" in Rush, just playing by some absolutely incredible musicians using their skills. If you want "overplaying," give Dream Theater a listen. THAT is overplaying.

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Mot Wrote:
Old Kentucky Wrote:
rush = tight, self-righteous overplaying

I don't hear any "overplaying" in Rush, just playing by some absolutely incredible musicians using their skills. If you want "overplaying," give Dream Theater a listen. THAT is overplaying.


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I don't hear any "overplaying" in Rush, just ostentatious diddling by some absolutely self-important musicians abusing their skills.

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I cleverly hate Rush, apparently.


Don't get me wrong, their lyrics are GAR of the highest order, and they do take themselves too seriously. But they have merit, especially way back when.

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overplaying? no. soulless technical crap? totally.

My problem with Rush is that their sound is so clean and just without any sort of flavor. Except, of course, for "OF SALESMEN".

Rush is one of those bands that everyone in high school that played in a band wanted to be. Then it was Van Halen. Then it was Primus. I have no idea who that is now.

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Cotton Wrote:
and they've got beards!!!! I dont really hear that stipulation in Rush (any more than i do with, say, Van Halen). Also, no beards on Rush.



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Finally, we hear that "in a move that should permanently squelch the first question that European journalists always ask him, Jason has shaved off his trademark beard in a step that drew a collective yawn from his bandmates."


I'm also looking forward to the new ep & album. I liked Sumday.

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