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Excerpts from the Diary of Todd Zilla

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214:, and Lytle planned to leave Modesto as soon as the album was complete, stating "In Modesto, it's like gravity is a lot heavier. There's something that just makes you feel like you're doing all you can just to keep your head above water, when in fact there's not a whole lot going on." He recorded the EP as "a way to fill the gaps of time while recording the new album. I just thought I could throw together some old songs and some newer ones and a really new one". 208:, and has been described as "not so much a farewell as a fuck off to the town". The name comes from something Lytle saw on the vanity license plate of a large truck in Modesto. In Lytle's words, the EP "was a nice opportunity for me to produce some whiney little complaining songs about my hometown. I think it's pretty blatant; it's pretty stripped down in terms of the message." It was recorded simultaneously with 233:. Some of the songs had been written much earlier, as far back as ten years before, as Lytle stated: "There are years-long gaps between a lot of these songs, and mostly they were just annoying me because they were sitting around doing nothing." Everything on the EP was written and recorded by Lytle with the exception of drum tracks by Aaron Burtch. 31: 707: 774: 1169: 853: 679:"In Music We Trust – Interview: Grandaddy: Jason Lytle Talks About Grandaddy's Last Record, His Mood, and Why It Is Hard to Make Money As an Independent Musician" 544: 655: 717: 356:
fuzz, stoned piano ballads, playful analogue synths, and misguided Bad Company references into a little more than half an hour". Gareth Dobson of
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gave it a B+ rating, calling it "richly illustrated, grim but empathetic, epic yet humane art rock". In the view of Joey Lipps of
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equipment at one of Lytle's two home studios. Its eight tracks do not appear on the band's fourth full-length album,
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opined that the EP represented "a wander into the field of revolution rather than evolution".
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Rowland, Marijke (23 September 2005). "Grandaddy's Newest Inspired by City's Sprawl".
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gave it 5.6/10, calling it "a goofy, sloppy mini-album, cramming familiar
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Index


EP
Grandaddy
Genre
Indie rock
Label
V2
Producer
Jason Lytle
Grandaddy
Below the Radio
Just Like the Fambly Cat
EP
indie rock
Grandaddy
record label
V2
Jason Lytle
Jason Lytle
Modesto
California
Just Like the Fambly Cat
8-track
V2
AllMusic
Drowned in Sound
Hot Press
The Michigan Daily
Pitchfork
Spin

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