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GRANDADDY "Just Like The Fambly Cat" Reviews
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Release: 9 May 2006
Label: V2 Ada
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| The Independent |
Rating: 10.0 |
It's a fine swansong from the band nevertheless, with churning psych-rock grooves such as "Jeez Louise" and "Rear View Mirror" sustaining a haunting, hypnotic quality despite wielding substantial power, and a palpable sense of alienation on show in tracks such as "Disconnecty" and "Summer... It's Gone".
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| Lunapark6 |
Rating: 9.0 |
Fully recovering from the underwhelming “Sumday” album, Grandaddy continues the strange mix of space rock, lo-fi, country musc, and electronica.
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| Lost At Sea magazine |
Rating: 8.5 |
Just Like the Fambly Cat lacks the cohesive flow of what is considered the band's finest hour, the never-ending dreamscape that was the Sophtware Slump.
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| CokeMachineGlow |
Rating: 8.5 |
ĺhough it fails to break any new ground, Just Like the Fambly Cat is as good a parting shot from these guys as we could have expected.
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| Entertainment Weekly |
Rating: 8.3 |
Just Like the Fambly Cat shows Lytle at the top of his game, lamenting summers past on songs whose soulful synth-rock recalls the '80s baroque-pop of the Electric Light Orchestra.
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| Guardian |
Rating: 8.0 |
A sad record, then, but an inspiring one too, offering the hope that the end of Grandaddy means a fresh start for Lytle.
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| MusicEmissions.com |
Rating: 8.0 |
This farewell album is actually not half bad.
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| Playlouder |
Rating: 8.0 |
They're a great loss, sure, but it's a great departure.
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| StylusMagazine |
Rating: 7.5 |
Just Like the Fambly Cat, even more than Grandaddy's past works, carries the weight of death.
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| Harp Magazine |
Rating: 7.0 |
Grandaddy’s demise is indeed a shame because this is probably the band’s most confident, sturdy album.
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| Slant Magazine |
Rating: 7.0 |
It's a very good album.
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| Blogcritics |
Rating: 7.0 |
While it might be the end for Grandaddy, hopefully it's not the last the world hears of Jason Lytle.
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| PitchFork |
Rating: 6.8 |
Throughout Fambly Cat, Lytle's slow-build home-studio sonics offer subtle textures, whether the sad-eyed Atari beeps and Books-ish spoken-word samples of opener "What Happened..." or the dolorous opera singer pledging never to return in bittersweet finale "Shangri La (Outro)".
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| SoundsXP |
Rating: 6.0 |
It's a damn shame if this is Grandaddy's last record; in another sense, it's a wholly appropriate and totally fitting last hurrah to listeners everywhere.
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| Times Online |
Rating: 6.0 |
Confirmed fans will enjoy this set, but any element of surprise is long gone.
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| TinyMixTapes |
Rating: 6.0 |
The endless digital-age references and mid-tempo breeze-a-longs dug Grandaddy's fourth full-length into a creative trench.
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| PrefixMag |
Rating: 6.0 |
Lytle, Tim Dryden, Kevin Garcia, Jim Fairchild and Aaron Burtch have been together as Grandaddy for more than fourteen years, and they have left a mark to be proud of.
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| AV Club |
Rating: 5.8 |
It'd be fairytale-great if Just Like The Fambly Cat turned out to be a triumphant, all-cylinders clicker that inspired the universe to demand Grandaddy's resurrection, but it's actually just a logical step in a predictable (in a good way) pattern.
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| Popmatters |
Rating: 5.0 |
Fambly Cat just serves to underscore how good Grandaddy has been by rehashing without improving or building.
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| Aversion |
Rating: 4.0 |
After treading water for six years, Fambly Cat doesn't make it clear whether Lytle is going under or simply climbing out of the pool.
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