Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump...On A Wooden Piano

 

Supporting cancer patients' treatment and care, 10 titles reissued on pink vinyl!

Ten Bands reissue their albums on limited edition pink vinyl, all for one cause. This is the eighth year for the initiative that has raised more than $250,000 for Red Door Community, an organization that provides community support for both those diagnosed with cancer and their caretakers.

This year's set includes limited edition releases by The Hold Steady, Grandaddy, The Allman Brothers, Bush, Plain White T's, Less Than Jake, Primal Scream, Umphreys' McGee, Minus The Bear and Tom Tom Club.

Modesto, California's influential indie-rock group Grandaddy celebrates the 20th-anniversary of their classic second LP, 2000's The Sophtware Slump with a brand-new solo piano recording of the album by principal songwriter Jason Lytle. The candid arrangements reveal new layers of meaning embedded in The Sophtware Slump's melancholy and touching vision of the future.

With a meticulous yet scruffy sound that continues to draw comparisons to a post-millennial OK Computer — and which Pitchfork called a "sad, quaint, low-key Y2K-era classic" — The Sophtware Slump, now heard as a solo piano album, is a chance to let the songwriting shine. This is not a record made up of demos or rough sketches; it is a shadow sibling to a record that inspired a generation in the earliest days of the 21st century.

1. He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot (Piano Version)

2. Hewlett's Daughter (Piano Version)

3. Jed the Humanoid (Piano Version)

4. The Crystal Lake (Piano Version)

5. Chartsengrafs (Piano Version)

6. Underneath the Weeping Willow (Piano Version)

7. Broken Household Appliance National Forest (Piano Version)

8. Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground) (Piano Version)

9. E. Knievel Interlude (The Perils of Keeping It Real) (Piano Version)

10. Miner at the Dial-a-View (Piano Version)

11. So You'll Aim Toward the Sky (Piano Version)

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