Grandaddy will be back in 2024 with their first album since 2017's Last Place. They're a band whose return is aways a cause for celebration, certainly for me. I come to appreciate their music and sensibility increasingly with the passing years. They're that rarest of beasts. A band with a genuinely sustained worldview and perpective. One that deserves a large illustrated book or a documentary.
With their return in mind it's worth listening to Everything on Memory the lastest record from Small Isles which features guitarist Jim Fairchild, who has done time with Grandaddy and Modest Mouse among others down the road.
There are seven largely instrumental tracks here. All of them veined with the spacey, uneasy melancholy which makes Grandaddy such a special project. These are tracks which are sad, but where you can't quite identify exactly where the sadness stems from precisely. If asked to specify the reason for that sadness I guess I'd say it's largely focused around a sense of loss. This seems to be a record about 'loss' but it's a quite wonderful one perhaps most when it's at its most downcast .
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