Grandaddy
Blu Wav
60--90点相当
カントリーに傾倒した感じの作品だとか。
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/grandaddy-blu-wav/
Jason Lytle has always written in the folk tradition. Even in his early songs as Grandaddy, the Californian tended towards fictionalized narratives, aphoristically making sense of technological apprehension like a Pete Seeger or Judy Collins for the turn of the millennium. Rather than lament the uniform “little boxes” of post-war suburbia, Lytle channeled the alienation born from even smaller boxes—computer monitors, cubicles—into evergreen ennui. By casting his emotions onto our surroundings, both organic and non, Lytle rendered them universal in their profound specificity: “Grieve like a freeway tree,” he sang on the 2017’s Last Place, capturing a sadness so uniquely American and yet so instantly legible. On Blu Wav, Grandaddy’s first album in seven years, Lytle leans into bittersweet Americana twang, a natural fit for his fatally flawed, cautiously optimistic cast of characters.
Inspiration for the shift toward country arrived when Lytle heard singer Patti Page’s 1950 hit “Tennessee Waltz” on his car radio. Struck by both the song’s time signature—he felt that he already naturally wrote in a waltz’s 3/4 or 6/8—and its gentle, winsome strings, he set out to make an album in a similar style. He captured his aesthetic vision in the titular phrase, a portmanteau of bluegrass and new wave—and since it wouldn’t be a proper Grandaddy title without at least one double meaning, “wav” also refers to the lossless audio format.
もっと出しているきがするが
6thだそうで。
