Sumday

Sumday
Studio album by Grandaddy
Released May 13, 2003
Genre
Length 52:27
Label V2
Producer Jason Lytle
Grandaddy chronology
The Sophtware Slump
(2000)		 Sumday
(2003)		 Below the Radio
(2004)
Singles from Sumday
  1. "El Caminos in the West"
    Released: August 25, 2003
  2. "Now It's On"
    Released: 2003
  3. "I'm on Standby/Stray Dog and the Chocolate Shake"
    Released: January 12, 2004

Sumday is the third studio album by American indie rock band Grandaddy, released on May 13, 2003 by record label V2.

Content

According to frontman Jason Lytle, the album "represents the closest I've been to singing in the first person, writing passionately".[1]

Release

Sumday was released on May 13, 2003 by record label V2. The album gave the band its highest chart placing in the UK, peaking at No. 22.[2] By 2006, the album had sold 110,000 copies.[3] Three singles were released from the album: "El Caminos in the West", which reached number 48 on the UK Singles Chart;[4] "Now It's On", which reached number 23; and "I'm on Standby".

An expanded version of the album was released five months later, with a bonus disc of songs recorded live at the Glastonbury Festival in 2003 (tracks 1–6) and three tracks taken from The Black Sessions in Paris (tracks 7–9).

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic78/100[5]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[6]
Blender[7]
Entertainment WeeklyA–[8]
The Guardian[9]
Los Angeles Times[10]
NME8/10[11]
Pitchfork Media8.1/10[12]
Rolling Stone[13]
SpinA[14]
Uncut[15]

The album was well-received by critics. PopMatters viewed the album as one where Lytle had decided to "tone down on the experimentation, and concentrate on developing some terrific melodies", calling it "really the next logical step for the band". He commented on similarities to the Alan Parsons Project ("Now It's On"), ELO ("The Go in the Go-for-It") and John Lennon ("Lost on Yer Merry Way"), and noted an improvement in Lytle's songwriting.[16] The CMJ New Music Report made it their 'essential release' in May 2003, calling it a "genuinely wholehearted work",[17] and in their end-of-year review placed it at number 7 in their list of the top albums of the year.[18] Jim DeRogatis, in his book Turn on Your Mind: Four Decades of Great Psychedelic Rock, viewed the melodies as "even more effervescent and more memorable" than on The Sophtware Slump.[19] Sophie Best of The Age called it "another sprawling sonic Grandaddy adventure, shimmering with wistful sincerity and rural-tinged psychedelia".[1] NME gave it 8/10, saying the songs sound "pretty much like Neil Young if he'd heard an Aphex Twin record".[11]

Heather Phares of AllMusic, however, criticised the album, calling it "bland and complacent" and opining that it failed to live up to the expectations of The Sophtware Slump.[6] Robert Christgau of The Village Voice gave the album a one-star honorable mention rating and cited "The Group Who Couldn't Say" and "Stray Dog and the Chocolate Shake" as highlights.[20]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Jason Lytle. 

No. Title Length
1. "Now It's On"   4:08
2. "I'm on Standby"   3:13
3. "The Go in the Go-for-It"   3:40
4. "The Group Who Couldn't Say"   4:08
5. "Lost on Yer Merry Way"   6:17
6. "El Caminos in the West"   3:22
7. "'Yeah' Is What We Had"   3:45
8. "Saddest Vacant Lot in All the World"   3:52
9. "Stray Dog and the Chocolate Shake"   3:43
10. "O.K. with My Decay"   6:11
11. "The Warming Sun"   5:44
12. "The Final Push to the Sum"   4:24

Personnel

Grandaddy
Technical

References

  1. 1 2 Best, Sophie (July 4, 2003). "Everyone's Grandaddy". The Age. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
  2. ↑ "Grandaddy | Artist | Official Charts". Official Charts. Retrieved June 4, 2013.
  3. ↑ Bronson, Kevin (June 5, 2006). "Grandaddy Leader Finally Changes His Tune on Band". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. p. 5E. Retrieved January 17, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Chart Stats - Grandaddy - El Caminos In The West". chartstats.com. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
  5. ↑ "Reviews for Sumday by Grandaddy". Metacritic. Retrieved March 15, 2015.
  6. 1 2 Phares, Heather. "Sumday – Grandaddy". AllMusic. Retrieved June 4, 2013.
  7. ↑ "Grandaddy: Sumday". Blender (17): 140. June–July 2003.
  8. ↑ Kim, Wook (June 13, 2003). "Sumday". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
  9. ↑ Clarke, Betty (June 6, 2003). "Grandaddy: Sumday". The Guardian. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
  10. ↑ Hochman, Steve (June 15, 2003). "Grandaddy embraces acceptance". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
  11. 1 2 Woodhouse, Alan (June 13, 2003). "Grandaddy : Sumday". NME. Retrieved June 4, 2013.
  12. ↑ Petrusich, Amanda (June 8, 2003). "Grandaddy: Sumday". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved June 4, 2013.
  13. ↑ Walters, Barry (June 12, 2003). "Grandaddy: Sumday". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on October 7, 2008. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
  14. ↑ Raihala, Ross (August 2003). "Grandaddy: Sumday". Spin 19 (8): 116. Retrieved January 17, 2012.
  15. ↑ "Grandaddy: Sumday". Uncut (74): 114. July 2003.
  16. ↑ Begrand, Adrian (27 June 2003). "Grandaddy: Sumday | PopMatters". PopMatters. Retrieved June 4, 2013.
  17. ↑ Santangelo, Antonia (May 26, 2003). "Grandaddy Sumday". CMJ New Music Report: 6. Retrieved January 17, 2012.
  18. ↑ Borolla, Caroline (December 29, 2003). "CMJ Top 10 of 2003: No. 7 – Grandaddy Sumday". CMJ New Music Report: 7. Retrieved January 17, 2012.
  19. ↑ DeRogatis, Jim. Turn on Your Mind: Four Decades of Great Psychedelic Rock. p. 557. ISBN 978-0-634-05548-5.
  20. ↑ Christgau, Robert. "Grandaddy: Sumday". RobertChristgau.com. Retrieved June 4, 2013.
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