Grandaddy Announce New Piano Version of 2000’s The Sophtware Slump

California indie rock group Grandaddy are celebrating the 20th anniversary of their 2000 LP The Sophtware Slump by reissuing the LP and releasing a new piano version of the record. The Sophtware Slump ….. on a wooden piano features core songwriter Jason Lytle performing the entire album solo on piano. Grandaddy have shared a video for the piano version of “Jed’s Other Poen (Beautiful Ground).” Watch it below.

The Sophtware Slump reissue will be issued as a 4xLP set on November 20 via Dangerbird. The release will include a re-mastered version of the original album, the new …on a wooden piano record, and 2 LPs of rarities including the Signal to Snow Ratio EP and Through a Frosty Plate Glass EP, issued on vinyl for the first time.

“Because of the pandemic, all of the sudden, I was looking at a real deadline to make the damn thing,” Jason Lytle said of ….. on a wooden piano in a press release. He added: “Here we go, just like the old days.”

Grandaddy guitarist Jim Fairchild added: “With the scope of what Grandaddy has done and what Jason has done in his career, I thought there was room to pay greater attention to my favorite view of him, which is as a songwrit

SourcePitchfork