“Grandaddy have never had the sunniest outlook but always found a way to make maudlin existence feel almost comforting. In 2000, when the world was terrified of a Skynet millennium doomsday, their second album, ‘The Sophtware Slump’, was lamenting loneliness and isolation in the impending digital age. It was Grandaddy at their peak, shuffling through life with a forlorn prescience, and ‘Last Place’”
“A decade after their last album, Grandaddy pick up where they left off, for better and for worse.”
“On Last Place, the band returns to the same well again, and while there is enough here to sustain some nostalgia, that well seems drier than ever before. ”
