Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Music news Jason Lytle finds geeky solitude in Montana
Posted by Ben Westhoff on Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 2:00 PM
Jason Lytle opens for Neko Case. $23-$33. 8 p.m. Sun., July 26. Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, 2800 Cobb Galleria Parkway. 770-916-2800. www.cobbenergycentre.com.
For a few years at the beginning of the decade, Modesto, Calif.-based dystopian noise-pop group Grandaddy pretty much owned the indie-rock scene. Say what you will about the Wilcos, Built to Spills or Modest Mouses, but for those in the mood for some seriously pretty, sing-along downer music, there was no substitute.
Ultimately, the depression that fueled Grandaddy’s songs — which told tales of decaying urban infrastructure, malfunctioning robots and mental breakdowns — appears to have gotten the better of the band’s members. Reports of group infighting, substance abuse and financial disagreements began to emerge, and shortly before the release of the 2006 swan song Just Like the Fambly Cat, frontman Jason Lytle departed for Montana and dissolved the group. Not that there was much to dissolve; Lytle had been crafting and recording the group’s music almost entirely by himself, enlisting his mates strictly for touring. But by setting up shop in Bozeman — a Montana college town of less than 40,000 residents that sits nearly 5,000 feet in the air — Lytle emphatically signaled that he wanted to go at it alone.
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