Yours Truly, The Commuter - Jason Lytle
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67 out of 100

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8.1 out of 10

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  • Summary: The ex-Grandaddy singer releases his debut solo album.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 22
  3. Negative: 1 out of 22
  1. Under The Radar
    80
    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]
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  2. The New York Times
    80
    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. Mojo
    60
    The record's familarity is nourishing rather than revelatory. [Jun 2009, p.99]
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  4. The Boston Phoenix
    37
    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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  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.… Collapse
  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

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