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Lost pilots, robots, miners, and programmers try to find their way on The Sophtware Slump, an album that shares a spacy sadness with Sparklehorse's Good Morning Spider and Radiohead's OK Computer.

Jason Lytle's frail, poignant vocals provide a bittersweet counterpoint to the chugging guitars and shiny electronics that envelop him like a cockpit or a cubicle on "Chartsengrafs" and "Broken Household Appliance National Forest" and set the tone for melancholy ballads like "He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot," "Miner at the Dial-a-View," and "Jed the Humanoid," the story of a forgotten, alcoholic android. Arpeggiated keyboards sparkle on "Hewlett's Daughter" and "The Crystal Lake," and wind, birds, and transmissions hover around the songs' peripheries, suggesting a Silicone Valley landscape. Picking up where their Signal to Snow Ratio EP left off, Grandaddy's wittily named second album The Sophtware Slump upgrades the group's wry, country-tinged rock with electronic flourishes that run through the album like fiber-optic lines. Here's the review from, where they make references to OK Computer. The rest of the songs are frankly kind of boring IMO. I agree that Crystal Lake which someone else referred to is one of the strongest tracks on that album.

Slump just seems to never get going anywhere. It came out in '03 or '04 I don't remember which.Īnyway, I have both of these Grandaddy records and I prefer Sumday by far. quote]Īre you sure you're not talking about the Grandaddy record Sumday? That record has themes VERY similar to OK Computer, regarding human relationships with computers and machines in general. *uploaded on Sunday at 7:30pm (Pacific Time)*Ī lot of critics' slammed this album for its' similarities to Radiohead's OK Computer, it being a concept album about technology and the future, and it's blend of rock and electronica.