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The Sophtware Slump - Grandaddy
  • Band Name: Grandaddy
  • Record Label: V2
  • Release Date: Nov 7, 2000
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Metascore
81 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 11 Critics What's this?

User Score
9.6 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 37 Ratings

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  • Summary: The Modesto, CA band returns with a concept album reminiscent of Radiohead's 'OK Computer.'

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. All Music Guide
    90
    An album that shares a spacy sadness with Sparklehorse's Good Morning Spider and Radiohead's OK Computer. Though it's a little more self-conscious and not quite as accomplished as either of those albums, it is Grandaddy's most impressive work yet and one of 2000's first worthwhile releases.
  2. Wall of Sound
    88
    The perfect soundtrack for workers clearing out their cubicles and trudging away after their short-lived high-tech careers abruptly ended. The 11 songs capture a bittersweet tone perfectly -- sadly witnessing cultural wreckage and detritus but finding glimmers of beauty.
  3. Sonicnet
    60
    It opens with a nine-minute song. It's a concept album. Worse still, it's a science fiction concept album. With songs about robots. But here's the thing: Every time I listen to it, I don't hate it.... The combination of prog-rock ambition, scrappy sounds and the odd hip reference almost make it feel like Pink Floyd growing up and making a disc in the post-Beck era.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 26
  3. Negative: 0 out of 26
  1. MOSHEK
    10
    masterpiece!
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    10
    masterpiece!
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  3. HungerfordS.
    10
    Masterpiece.. This is the kind of album that is best listened to all the way through. It is greater than the sum of it's parts. Truly unbelievable. Thanks Grandaddy.… Expand
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