ARTIST: Grandaddy
TITLE: Just Like The Fambly Cat
LABEL: V2
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 219kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 1h 00min total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-05-02
RIP DATE: 2006-03-14

Track List

01. What Happened                   2:19
02. Jeez Louise                     3:41
03. Summer Its Gone                 5:30
04. Oxygen-Aux Send                 1:08
05. Rear View Mirror                6:08
06. The Animal World                4:53
07. Skateboarding Saves Me Twice    3:22
08. Where Im Anymore                6:07
09. 50 Percent                      1:03
10. Guide Down Denied               6:32
11. Elevate Myself                  3:41
12. Campershell Dreams              3:44
13. Disconnecty                     3:34
14. This Is How It Always Starts    6:46
15. Shangri-La (Outro) (Bonus       2:16
Track)

Release Notes:

Grandaddy’s 5th and supposedly final album is one hell of a record. Fully
recovering from the underwhelming “Sumday” album, Grandaddy continues the
strange mix of space rock, lo-fi, country musc, and electronica.

“Just Like The Fambly Cat” album impresses to the inifite degree. The album
opens with “What Happened…”, A sparse instrumental with a simple piano
arrangement layered with sprinkles of ambient noises, and a loop of a kid asking
“What happened to the family cat?”…

Then “Jeez Louise” suddenly blasts off, with a great rocking song in the
Grandaddy tradition.  The guitars and bass crunch, other guitars swirl around
creating a sonic wall of sound that would make Kevin Shields proud,

Electronic beeps appear out of nowhere, “Summer…Its Gone” comes up next, slower
and a bit somber, but picks up speed during the song, then slows down into a
spacier moment, then back to original tempo. Awesome song!

Fitting track for an album thought to be the band’s farewell. Next track
“Oxygen-Aux Send” is a brief one minute instrumental that would fit perfectly in
one of the quieter scenes in “A Clockwork Orange”.

“Rear View Mirror” picks up the tempo, but has the somber tone of retrospection.

“The Animal World” is typical Grandaddy weirdness, probably my least favorite
track on here.
“Skateboarding Saves Me Twice” is a hell of instrumental that is a bit brighter
then other songs on here.

Highlights of the rest of the album is “Guide Down Denied”, “50%” (which could
be confused by a song by Clinic), “This Is How It Always Starts” (Pink Floyd if
they had taste?), and “Disconnecty”.

Grandaddy’s final album reminds me a bit of the movie “Heat”, towards the end
when De Niro knew he should walk away, but had to go back one last time to knock
out the rat in the hospital, only in Grandaddy’s situation they didn't get
busted by Pacino. What a way to go out Grandaddy..awesome.

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