Grandaddy: Last Place review – solid, not spectacular

(Columbia)Jason Lytle’s two solo records rarely strayed too far from the template he’d perfected as Grandaddy frontman –synth-infused symphonic indie shot through with a nagging sense of unease – so the band’s first album in 11 years seems like a seamless continuation. Jed the 4th is a sequel to 2000’s heartbreaking Jed the Humanoid, and familiar themes of loss and loneliness recur throughout, most notably on the bleakly beautiful This Is the Pa