Yours Truly, The Commuter Image
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Universal acclaim- based on 7 Ratings

  • Summary: The ex-Grandaddy singer releases his debut solo album.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 22
  2. Negative: 1 out of 22
  1. This album cherry-picks a lot of the best ideas from his past work and sets a new baseline, which will simultaneously please fans of his old band and allow him to vault into the future. [Spring 2009, p.66]
  2. It’s a fragile recollection of California rock from more auspicious times, with stately melodies and vocal chorales over jerry-built foundations: elegies for vanished certainties.
  3. 60
    The record's familarity is nourishing rather than revelatory. [Jun 2009, p.99]
  4. The music simply crawls by in a maddeningly static mid-tempo blur, going about its melancholy business on the way to nowhere.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. discombobulator
    7
    I was a Grandaddy fan, and on his own its more of the same. I did kinda hope that he was holding something back for his solo debut. Not on this one. That's not saying I don't like it...hey. Expand
  2. FlubbyB
    7
    The music is still so distinctly him, but it just doesn't hit me with the same impact that Sophtware Slump or Sumday did. However, it�39;s still nice to have new material. Expand