Last year, Seattle quintet Great Grandpa returned with two new tracks, ‘Kid’ and ‘Doom’. Together both tracks marked their first slice of new music in five years. However, they’re only a taster of what will become Great Grandpa‘s upcoming third album. It’s titled ‘Patience, Moonbeam’ and will be released through Run For Cover Records on March 28th.
In the years since 2019’s ‘Four of Arrows’, the members of Great Grandpa had grown apart and away from their Seattle base, with Pat and Carrie Goodwin moving to Denmark and starting a family. However, having reconvened in 2023, ‘Patience, Moonbeam’ promises to see the five-piece tap into their longtime friendships resulting in their most collaborative effort yet. The result of a “looser” approach hints at a band expanding their musical palette.
For example, the aforementioned ‘Kid’ treads on rock opera traits with refined delicacy and rich execution. ‘Doom’ embraces odd time signatures alongside its brooding guitar work. While a third preview track, ‘Junior’, released today, gently drifts with a compelling narrative of youthful boyhood playfulness (“light crimes with my buddies all night”).
Collectively, the three tracks imply a band reconnected and on the same wavelength. “We’re all like individual swinging pendulums,” says guitarist/vocalist Dylan Hanwright, “and every now and then we come into sync for a few rotations. Sometimes it’s two of us, sometimes three of us, often it’s not any of us. But when it does come together, it’s really beautiful.”
1. Sleep
2. Never Rest
3. Junior
4. Emma
5. Lady Bug
6. Kiss The Dice
7. Doom
8. Task
9. Top Gun
10. Patience, Moonbeam
11. Ephemera
12. Kid
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