[Cover photo credit to Dustin Aksland]

Indie-Rock band Grandaddy will release their first new studio album in 7 years, Blu Wav, on February 16, 2023 via Dangerbird Records. They’ve released their final album preview single, “Long as I’m Not the One“, which is a “heartbreak ballad”.

Jason Lytle shares:

While the lyrics arrived early and remained mostly unchanged, I ended up recording two or three other versions of this song and just couldn’t get it right. Too folky and/or too country was the culprit. Luckily, I hung in there and settled on this rendition. Just enough shine and dirt. Just enough modern and vintage. I’m still confused as to what it is, but that’s pretty normal for me.

The album Blu Wav is inspired “by the overwhelming beauty of nature to the mundane moments that spark life’s strongest memories.” With the album title meant to be a mash-up of “bluegrass” and “new wave”, the album was conceived as Grandaddy maestro Jason Lytle was driving through the Nevada desert. This is Lytle’s first foray into Country music, which he mixes with synths and other elements that he is more known for.

Grandaddy recently celebrated their legacy with a series of 20th anniversary reissues including the Sumday Twunny box set.

Lytle also contributed vocals to a posthumous Sparklehorse album by request of his friend and fellow Psychedelic Pop auteur Mark Linkous’ family.

Grandaddy members include Jason Lytle, Aaron Burtch, Jim Fairchild, Tim Dryden, and the late Kevin Garcia, who passed away in 2017.