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Mar 2, 2017It’s beautiful and utterly captivating in its own way and, after all the band and Lytle have been through, that’s triumphant enough.
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Feb 27, 2017It’s sentimental, it’s oddball and it’s beautiful. In other words, it’s Grandaddy at their finest.
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UncutFeb 27, 2017It's a subtler and darker sibling to The Sophtware Slump or Just Like The Fambly Cat. [Apr 2017, p.30]
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Mar 3, 2017Lytle remains adept at worming his weary melodies into the hidden folds of broken hearts, and through a bit of grin-and-shrug relation, can take aim at the enigmatic roots of a dangerous generation with little more than three chords.
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Mar 2, 2017The songs rock and are well written and that’s enough.
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Feb 27, 2017A welcome return that’s more solid than it should be, yet less varied than you might hope.
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Mar 7, 2017It makes for a diverse album within the tight framework that Lytle operates in, and even if it could have been a solo album just as easily, it works as a Grandaddy album too. If not quite as compelling overall as their best work like Sophtware Slump, it's a worthy successor to the very good Just Like the Fambly Cat and a welcome return for the "band."
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Mar 3, 2017Grandaddy is no longer a detached soundtrack hovering over life, it's articulating within it, and we are getting it in a whole new way.
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Mar 2, 2017It may be over a decade since their last album, but when Last Place chugs into life with Why We Won’t, it feels as if Grandaddy haven’t aged a day.
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Mar 2, 2017Last Place is more sophisticated and less self-consciously wacky than some of the Californians’ previous releases, and better for it.
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Mar 1, 2017He wields with sumptuous beauty, from the Floyd-like swathes of mellotron and piano carrying “The Boat Is In The Barn” and the stately “Lost Machine”, to the implacable electropop fizz of “Evermore”.
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Feb 27, 2017The band is categorically known for their disciplined uniformity, an approach that gives the band more room to inject more personality into their straightforward rhythm section; seeing as the indie rock landscape has also considerably changed, it’s actually a welcome throwback that’s aged well.
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Mar 15, 2017A collection that isn’t going to win over the world but might just help you make more sense out of it.
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Mar 3, 2017Last Place is the work of a reenergized band that’s clearly benefited from its extended downtime, even if its overarching mood hardly reflects it.
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Mar 6, 2017Last Place is a fittingly contented throwback/possible farewell.
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Apr 4, 2017With his piano, classical flourishes and superbly layered production a la E.L.O., it’s out of sync but, when it works, wonderfully so. Whether Lytle’s vocals work for you or not will probably be the main deciding factor as to whether the band itself works for you. Oftentimes he smooths out the edges, but his singing can come across as whiny.
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Mar 2, 2017Last Place is an occasionally misty-eyed but very welcome return. A broken but pretty mess.
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Mar 15, 2017Self-aware and refined, fifth album Last Place--the first in 11 years--is astonishingly solid.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 27 out of 33
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Mixed: 4 out of 33
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Negative: 2 out of 33
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