Grandaddy: Sophtware Slump On A Wooden Piano Vinyl

Why you'll love it

This edition comes on eco mix citrus yellow vinyl. Lytle recorded the whole album again alone at the piano in 2020, twenty years after The Sophtware Slump first came out, from "He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's The Pilot" to "So You'll Aim Toward The Sky."

This edition

Eco mix citrus yellow vinyl
Stereo mix

About the album

The Sophtware Slump has always been a quietly futuristic record about machines with feelings and people who have run a little low on them. Jason Lytle wrote and recorded the original alone in a dusty farmhouse, and in 2020 he went back to it alone again, this time with a wooden piano and none of the synth clutter.

Stripped back, the songs show how sturdy they were all along. "Hewlett's Daughter" and "The Crystal Lake" keep their lovely melodies, "Jed The Humanoid," Lytle's elegy for a robot, becomes even more tender, and "Broken Household Appliance National Forest" turns from fuzz into a gentle parlour piece. The long opener "He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's The Pilot" unfolds slowly, and "Miner At The Dial-A-View," which began life as a 1989 home demo, fits the piano like a glove.

Dangerbird Records put it out on November 20, 2020, as a companion to the original. It is the gentlest possible way to hear a record about technology, and the piano never once asks you to update it.

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Tracklist

Side A
1. He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's The Pilot
2. Hewlett's Daughter
3. Jed The Humanoid
4. The Crystal Lake
5. Chartsengrafs

Side B
1. Underneath The Weeping Willow
2. Broken Household Appliance National Forest
3. Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground)
4. E. Knievel Interlude (The Perils Of Keeping It Real)
5. Miner At The Dial-A-View
6. So You'll Aim Toward The Sky