Jason Lytle, one-time Grandaddy frontman, returns with a new album which sounds so much like a Grandaddy record that you have to wonder why he needed to go solo.
Obviously the dreamy, floating vocals are still there but so is the mix of electronics and acoustics, sad vocals over jaunty melodies and the feeling, present on the last two Grandaddy albums, that an opportunity has been missed ever so slightly.
Lytle starts off with his most strident song, the title track, with its "I may be limping/ but I'm coming home" refrain and some crunchy guitar. The album is frontloaded with the livelier radio-friendly tunes, including 'It's The Weekend', which sounds like something by the Wannadies used by Sky Sports in the mid 90s.
The better stuff is the more experimental, 'This Song is the Mute Button' is minimal and stark and 'Brand New Sun' is the electro-folk cousin of Grandaddy's 'Now Its On'.
This is a really nice sounding record. Lyrically, Lytle offers a critique of the stresses and strains of the modern world, a good subject from someone who has recently escaped it all to live in the Countryside. He sounds at peace here and has made a breezy, enjoyable record that doesn't challenge but will please his fans.
7.2
['Yours Truly The Commuter' is out now on cd/LP from Anti]
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