Visions of a technological wasteland (The Sophtware Slump - Grandaddy)

Member Name: johnpaul

Product:	The Sophtware Slump - Grandaddy
Date:	06/05/01 (78 review reads)
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Advantages: Great sweeping ballads, unusual, engaging subject matter

Disadvantages: none to speak of

I came across Californian based Grandaddy's album by pure chance and was much in need for something fresh in my CD collection - it more than fit the bill. I have fallen in love with this quirky and peculiar album.

Grandaddy's 'The Sophtware Slump' is a remarkable work of sweeping ballads to subjects as eccentric as recently deceased, neglected robot's called Jed, that was created in the kitchen 'Jed the Humanoid', to peans to obsolescent pieces of mass technology; 'Broken Household Appliance National Forrest' and remote viewing of the world 'Miner at the Dial-a-view'. The whole album is infused with some sort of epic, futuristic technology, so much so that I'm sure it shouldn't of really worked, being as close to a seventies 'concept' album as it is - but it does work - beautifully.

What is here is tunes aplenty with lyrics that make you prick up your ears, all sung by Jason Lytle - the vocalist, keyboardist and guitarist (the hardest worker in the band then?) with a voice reminiscent of a young Neil Young. It sounds like he's a top a huge technological rubbish dump, watching the world grow a grey pallor as technology overtakes humanity.

Highly recommended.

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