Sophtware Slump (2000) ( )

Artist: Grandaddy
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Label: Bmg/v2
UPC: 00638812706829
Release Date: 5/16/2000
Buy.com Sku: 60406029
Item#: MJWMRY
Format:  CD

Song Listing

Disc 1
Song TitleSample
1. He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's The Pilot ~ Grandaddy
2. Hewlett's Daughter ~ Grandaddy
3. Jed The Humanoid ~ Grandaddy
4. Crystal Lake, The ~ Grandaddy
5. Chartsengrafs ~ Grandaddy
6. Underneath The Weeping Willow ~ Grandaddy
7. Broken Household Appliance National Forest ~ Grandaddy
8. Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground) ~ Grandaddy
9. E. Knievel Interlude (The Perils Of Keeping It Real) ~ Grandaddy
10. Miner At The Dial-A-View ~ Grandaddy
11. So You'll Aim Toward The Sky ~ Grandaddy



 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
Grandaddy includes: Jason Lytle.
Recorded at Little Portugal, Modesto, California.
Includes bonus disc THROUGH A FROSTY PLATE GLASS E.P.
Grandaddy: Jason Lytle.
Recorded at Little Portugal, Modesto, California.
Audio Mixer: Jason Lytle.
Recording information: Little Portugal, Modesto.
THE SOPHTWARE SLUMP is a kick in the pants for anyone who believes that indie-rock is, after a notable creative peak in the mid-'90s, dying a slow and stupefying death. Not with underground sounds like these around. Guided by Jason Lyttle's vision of spacey, mid-fi country-rock, Modesto, CA's Grandaddy unites a mess of guitar-based, late-90's fringe-musics into coherent statements about humanity and technology--and if it at times sounds a lot like OK COMPUTER or a lower-fidelity SOFT BULLETIN, that's partly the point.
As the band has grown, the classic indie sound of Pavement has ceased to be its sole touchstone. Sparklehorse's studio-created ambient-Gothic bleeds have taken a strong hold, as has Radiohead's symphonic balladeering. But, mixed in an unselfconscious manner, these influences underline Lyttle's desire to have the music convey the era's confusion. So the epic mid-tempo opener "He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot" recalls the stilted pace of "Paranoid Android," "Broken Household Appliance National Forest" is a metaphorically lumbering rocker whose sounds spill over like punky stoners doing Black Sabbath, and "Chartsengrafs" rocks out in first-rate VIVADIXIE fashion. SOPHTWARE is the sum of its grand parts.
THE SOPHTWARE SLUMP is a kick in the pants for anyone who believes that indie-rock is, after a notable creative peak in the mid-'90s, dying a slow and stupefying death. Not with underground sounds like these around. Guided by Jason Lyttle's vision of spacey, mid-fi country-rock, Modesto, CA's Grandaddy unites a mess of guitar-based, late-90's fringe-musics into coherent statements about humanity and technology--and if it at times sounds a lot like OK COMPUTER or a lower-fidelity SOFT BULLETIN, that's partly the point.
As the band has grown, the classic indie sound of Pavement has ceased to be its sole touchstone. Sparklehorse's studio-created ambient-Gothic bleeds have taken a strong hold, as has Radiohead's symphonic balladeering. But, mixed in an unselfconscious manner, these influences underline Lyttle's desire to have the music convey the era's confusion. So the epic mid-tempo opener "He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot" recalls the stilted pace of "Paranoid Android," "Broken Household Appliance National Forest" is a metaphorically lumbering rocker whose sounds spill over like punky stoners doing Black Sabbath, and "Chartsengrafs" rocks out in first-rate VIVADIXIE fashion. SOPHTWARE is the sum of its grand parts.

 
Artist Overview
Active in the 1990s and early 2000s, these Modesto, California natives specialized in alternative rock that was paradoxically electronic and futuristic while remaining strangely organic and rustic. Their farmhand look indicated that they lean towards the latter, but their knack for computer-based sounds, particularly on their acclaimed SOPHTWARE SLUMP, revealed that they drew as much influence from Radiohead as from Neil Young. Led by singer-songwriter Jason Lytle, the band built a large fan base through endless touring and consistently engaging albums.

Artist Influences
David Bowie | Electric Light Orchestra | Flaming Lips | Giant Sand | Meat Puppets | Mercury Rev | Neil Young | Pavement | Pink Floyd | Pixies | Radiohead | Swell | The Beach Boys | The Beatles | Yo La Tengo

Artist Contemporaries
Athlete | Beachwood Sparks | Beck | Cornelius | Dark Side of the Cop | Dios | Duraluxe | Eels | Elf Power | Elliott Smith | Flotation Toy Warning | Giant Sand | Golden Shoulders | Gorky's Zygotic Mynci | His Name Is Alive | Home | Mercury Rev | Midlake | Papercuts | Pavement | Quasi | R.E.M. | Radar Bros. | Radiohead | Seafood | Secret Machines | Seely | Sparklehorse | Spoon | Stephen Malkmus | Super Furry Animals | The Beta Band | The Universe | Tsunami | Ween | Wilco

Artist Followers
All Night Radio | Canyon | Earlimart | M. Ward | My Morning Jacket | The Polyphonic Spree | The Shins


 
Compilation Appearances
Below The Radio
I Am the Resurrection: A Tribute to John Fahey

 
Associated Artists and Works
Artist's Choice: Below the Radio ~ Various Artists

 
Technical Info
Release Date : 02/01/2006
Original Release Date : 2000
Catalog ID : 27068
Label : V2 Records (USA)
Number of Discs : 1
Studio/Live : Studio
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
SPAR Code : n/a
UPC : 00638812706829

 
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (6/8/00, p.124)
- 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...Exhilarating....a loose indie-rock suite about how sad and funny and fleeting technology actually is....[frontman Jason] Lytle's rigorous, knotty songwriting skills check his band's yen for indie-rock messiness..."

Rolling Stone (6/8/00, p.124)
- 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...Exhilarating....a loose indie-rock suite about how sad and funny and fleeting technology actually is....[frontman Jason] Lytle's rigorous, knotty songwriting skills check his band's yen for indie-rock messiness..."

Spin (1/01, p.76)
- Ranked #6 in Spin's "10 Best Records You Didn't Hear Of The Year [2000]" - "...Obsessively melodic snatches of indie pop..."

Spin (1/01, p.76)
- Ranked #6 in Spin's "10 Best Records You Didn't Hear Of The Year [2000]" - "...Obsessively melodic snatches of indie pop..."

Entertainment Weekly (6/23/00, p.102)
- "...Their melodies, earthy but otherworldly, infiltrate your head before retreating into space..." - Rating: A-

Entertainment Weekly (6/23/00, p.102)
- "...Their melodies, earthy but otherworldly, infiltrate your head before retreating into space..." - Rating: A-

Q (1/01, p.91)
- Included in Q's "50 Best Albums of 2000".

Q (6/00, p.106)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...This year's chosen chunk of cosmic Americana...sounding like a lo-fi ELO and...possesses an admirably unusual songwriter....Cheap, cheerful and utterly charming."

Q (1/01, p.91)
- Included in Q's "50 Best Albums of 2000".

Q (6/00, p.106)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...This year's chosen chunk of cosmic Americana...sounding like a lo-fi ELO and...possesses an admirably unusual songwriter....Cheap, cheerful and utterly charming."

Magnet (1-2/01, p.45)
- Included in Magnet's "20 Best Albums of 2000".

Magnet (6-7/00, p.77)
- "...Works within a tradition of records that owe as much to the Echoplex as they do to impending nervous breakdowns and squandered cash advances. And that's what makes it a keeper..."

Magnet (1-2/01, p.45)
- Included in Magnet's "20 Best Albums of 2000".

Magnet (6-7/00, p.77)
- "...Works within a tradition of records that owe as much to the Echoplex as they do to impending nervous breakdowns and squandered cash advances. And that's what makes it a keeper..."

CMJ (1/08/01, p.12)
- Included in CMJ's "Best of the Year" for 2000.

CMJ (5/00, p.61)
- "...Poignant and peculiar....suggesting a stoned...version of [the Flaming Lips'] eccentrics..."

CMJ (1/08/01, p.12)
- Included in CMJ's "Best of the Year" for 2000.

CMJ (5/00, p.61)
- "...Poignant and peculiar....suggesting a stoned...version of [the Flaming Lips'] eccentrics..."

Melody Maker (5/9/00, p.52)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...Low-budget artwork, fuzzy synths and utterly bizarre song titles...all ring large, Pavement-sounding alarm bells....[the] opening track 'He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's The Pilot' [is] one of the most perfectly crafted songs you'll hear..."

Melody Maker (5/9/00, p.52)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...Low-budget artwork, fuzzy synths and utterly bizarre song titles...all ring large, Pavement-sounding alarm bells....[the] opening track 'He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's The Pilot' [is] one of the most perfectly crafted songs you'll hear..."

Mojo (Publisher)
(6/00, p.100)
- "...Warm and sunny (though unsettlingly so)
...like the eels fronted by a young, easily-breakable Neil Young....The use of computers and electronic SFX emphasizing their dark, distorting, disturbing qualities..."

Mojo (Publisher)
(6/00, p.100)
- "...Warm and sunny (though unsettlingly so)
...like the eels fronted by a young, easily-breakable Neil Young....The use of computers and electronic SFX emphasizing their dark, distorting, disturbing qualities..."

NME (Magazine)
(12/30/00, p.77)
- Ranked #12 in NME's "Top 50 Albums Of The Year" - "...The finest LP made by men with beards..."

NME (Magazine)
(12/30/00, p.77)
- Ranked #12 in NME's "Top 50 Albums Of The Year" - "...The finest LP made by men with beards..."

  
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