Below the Radio
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| Released | 2004 | |||
| Genre | Indie rock | |||
| Label | Ultra | |||
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Below the Radio is a mixtape put together by Jason Lytle of American indie rock band Grandaddy, released in 2004 by record label Ultra. The album also included a new Grandaddy track, "Nature Anthem".
Background
[edit]Ultra Records had approached Grandaddy frontman Jason Lytle via his management some time earlier with the idea for him to compile a mixtape, and he decided to include tracks that he considered "sleeper hits", identifying a common theme: "They all seem to have pretty conventional and familiar chord progressions. They all have vivid imagery for me with their words. There also seems to be a bit of sadness, but not necessarily despair."[1]
Reception
[edit]| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [2] |
| Pitchfork | 7.3/10[3] |
AllMusic's Matt Collar stated the album "plays like a K-Tel commercial for Gen X sad-sackism", calling it "pretty cool".[2] Brian Howe of Pitchfork wrote "for the most part, the songs [Lytle] selected sound quite a bit like his own band. Lush yet sleek and slightly sterile is the dominant style of Below the Radio".[3]
Track listing
[edit]- Beck – "We Live Again"
- Beulah – "Burned by the Sun"
- Earlimart – "Color Bars"
- Snow Patrol – "Run"
- Goldenboy – "Wild Was The Night"
- Giant Sand – "Bottom Line Man"
- Fruit Bats – "The Little Acorn"
- Home – "Comin' Up Empty Again"
- Jackpot – "If We Could Go Backwards"
- The Handsome Family – "I Fell"
- Little Wings – "Sand Canyon"
- Pavement – "Motion Suggests"
- Blonde Redhead – "For the Damaged"
- Virgil Shaw – "Twisted Layer"
- Grandaddy – "Nature Anthem"
References
[edit]- ^ "Jason Lytle Made You a Mixtape: Grandaddy | Prefix". Prefix. January 1, 2002. Retrieved December 12, 2014.
- ^ a b Collar, Matt. "Artist's Choice: Below the Radio – Grandaddy | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved December 12, 2014.
- ^ a b Howe, Brian (November 1, 2004). "Grandaddy: Below the Radio | Album Reviews | Pitchfork". Pitchfork. Retrieved December 12, 2014.