Feb

17

2006

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Band : Grandaddy
Album : Just Like The Fambly Cat
Release Date : May 9, 2006
Website : http://www.grandaddylandscape.com/
Label : V2
Free Downloads : Jeez Louise
Rating : 8.5
Users Rating: 10 1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars6 Stars7 Stars8 Stars9 Stars10 Stars (3 votes)

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Grandaddy’s 5th and supposedly final album is one hell of a record. Fully recovering from the underwhelming “Sumday” album, Grandaddy continues the strange mix of space rock, lo-fi, country musc, and electronica. “Just Like The Fambly Cat” album impresses this reviewer to the inifite degree. The album opens with “What Happened…”, a sparse instrumental with a simple piano arrangement layered with sprinkles of ambient noises, and a loop of a kid asking “What happened to the family cat?”…then “Jeez Louise” suddenly blasts off, with a great rocking song in the Grandaddy tradition. The guitars and bass crunch, other guitars swirl around creating a sonic wall of sound that would make Kevin Shields proud, electronic beeps appear out of nowhere, “Summer…Its Gone” comes up next, slower and a bit somber, but picks up speed during the song, then slows down into a spacier moment, then back to original tempo. Awesome song! Fitting track for an album thought to be the band’s farewell. Next track “Oxygen-Aux Send” is a brief one minute instrumental that would fit perfectly in one of the quieter scenes in “A Clockwork Orange”. “Rear View Mirror” picks up the tempo, but has the somber tone of retrospection. “The Animal World” is typical Grandaddy weirdness, probably my least favorite track on here. “Skateboarding Saves Me Twice” is a hell of instrumental that is a bit brighter then other songs on here. Highlights of the rest of the album is “Guide Down Denied”, “50%” (which could be confused for a song by Clinic), “This Is How It Always Starts” (Pink Floyd if they had taste?), and “Disconnecty”. Grandaddy’s final album reminds me a bit of the move “Heat”, towards the end when De Niro knew he should walk away, but had to go back one last time to knock out the rat in the hospital, only in Grandaddy’s situation they didnt get busted by Pacino. What a way to go out Grandaddy.

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