Sumday by Grandaddy

Sumday, Grandaddy's third album, came out on V2 Records on May 13, 2003, three years after The Sophtware Slump had made critics swoon. The Modesto, California band of Jason Lytle, Aaron Burtch, Jim Fairchild, Kevin Garcia and Tim Dryden still worked the way they always had, with Lytle producing and shaping most of the music himself in home-studio isolation.

What comes out is a warm, woozy kind of indie rock, where fuzz and hum drift around melodies that ache without ever raising their voice. "Now It's On" is the rare moment the band gets up and shoves, a buzzing, head-nodding rocker that wears its hooks proudly. Critics liked it, and it did good business in the UK.

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