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GRANDADDY ANNOUNCE LAST PLACE

November 2, 2016

 
FIRST NEW ALBUM IN TEN YEARS OUT MARCH 3 
VIA 30TH CENTURY RECORDS / COLUMBIA
BAND SHARES VIDEO FOR “WAY WE WON’T” + ANNOUNCES UK TOUR 

On March 3, 2017 Grandaddy will release Last Place, their first album since 2006, onDanger Mouse‘s 30th Century Records.  Produced by the band’s Jason LytleLast  Placeis wry, humane, poignant, fantastical, and very beautiful; a panoramic representation of everything that has always made Grandaddy so well-loved.

Today, the band shares a video for the album track “Way We Won’t,” which was first featured on a sold out, limited-edition 7″ from this past September, and stars actor Jason Ritter.  The video, directed by Chris Grieder, premiered on NPR and Lytle told them, “I would have loved to have made a video based exactly on the lyrics of this song, but I really like (director) Chris Grieder’s treatment because the main character is an outsider who has taken to wandering and can¹t get accepted (picked up) by a varying array of characters. I felt it was important to place a girl in the cast of characters, someone
who had some attachment to the loner guy and perhaps,just perhaps, was responsible for putting him on that lonely road. I have to say my absolute favorite part is the very end (you have to watch it).”   Read the full write-up here and watch “Way We Won’t”  here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRC1gwIdCe4

After Grandaddy broke up in 2006, the band’s frontman Jason Lytle relocated to Montana, where he happily made two solo albums, and reconnected with the natural world around him.  Eventually, though, life uprooted him again, taking him to Portland, Oregon until he eventually returned to his former home of Modesto, California.  The return to California was practical (he needed to be near his bandmates) but also appropriate:  he had started writing songs that he felt would be fitting for another Grandaddy album.  He needed to let the ideas flow until he found the perfect chemistry for what is now Last Place, which he describes as: “just enough personal stuff and just enough escapism, just enough electronics and just enough acoustic elements. The full spectrum.”
photo by Dan Cronin
 
The result is a perfect addition to the band’s celebrated, critically-acclaimed catalogue, that includes their breakthrough sophomore album, Sophtware Slump, and their debut, Under the Western Freeway.  It’s a symphonic swirl of lo-fi sonics and mile-high harmonies, found sounds and electronics-gone-awry mingling with perfect, power pop guitar tones.Lytle‘s voice sounds as warm and intimate as ever, giving graceful levity to the doomsday narratives that have dominated the Grandaddy output.
When it came time to release the record, Grandaddy found an ally in artist, producer, and label owned Danger Mouse who notes, “Grandaddy’s music has had a big influence on me and the new album almost sounds like it could fit between Sophtware Slump and Sumday.”
Along with the new album,  the band, Jason Lytle (vox, guitar, keys), Jim Fairchild (guitar), Kevin Garcia (bass), Tim Dryden (keys) and Aaron Burtch (drums) will be making a return to the road in 2017.   Tickets for the following shows are on sale Friday, November 4 at 9am GMT:  https://t.co/or3n39cPb6
3/26/17 – Newcastle, UK @ Hoults Yard
3/27/17 – Leeds, UK @ Irish Centre
3/28/17 – Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall
3/29/17 – Nottingham, UK @ Rock City
3/31/17 – Bristol, UK @ Colston Hall
4/1/17 – Brighton, UK @ Concorde 2
4/3/17 – London, UK @ Roundhouse
4/5/17 – Brussel, Belgium @ AB Hall
LISTEN TO “Way We Won’t” here.
PRE-ORDER Last Place here.
Tracklisting For Last Place
  1. Way We Won’t
  2. Brush with the Wild
  3. Evermore
  4. Oh She Deleter 🙁
  5. The Boat is in the Barn
  6. Chek Injin
  7. I Don’t Wanna Live Here Anymore
  8. That’s What You Get for Gettin’ Outta Bed
  9. This is the Part
  10. Jed the 4th
  11. A Lost Machine
  12. Songbird Son
 
Find Grandaddy here:
 www.grandaddymusic.com
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