Jason Lytle: Department of Disappearance – review

(Epitaph)Since dissolving Grandaddy in 2006, Jason Lytle has been living in the mountains of Montana "recording nerd-style, geeked out in the house with the headphones on". His music has always been a strange combination of grandeur and humility, its slow, majestic chord sequences and long fade-outs brought down to earth by his baby voice and toy computer samples; as with Wilco, you get the sense of a complicated man, dressed like a lumberjack, given to bouts of gloom but essentially hopeful â€...

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