Great Grandpa Patience, Moonbeam Blue Vinyl Edition

Six years removed from their last release, Seattle's Great Grandpareturn with Patience, Moonbeam - an ambitious and deeply movingnew album that almost didn't happen. A decade of making musictogether was put on pause while each of the band's were called indifferent directions. But as with any good relationship built on mutuallove, trust, and a mountain of shared history, the quintet reunited,scrapped most ideas of songs they had put together, and startedfresh to work on what would become their best album to date, dueout in March on Run For Cover Records.Whereas 2019's Four of Arrows mostly came together in the pressure-cooker atmosphere of the studio with the help of an outsideproducer, Patience, Moonbeam emerged slowly through a generousdemoing process. With fewer constraints and more control, theband had the opportunity to experiment and take their time, leadingto a collection that feels and sounds more fully, confidently, themselves.Built on an "open door policy" for writing and recording, Patience,Moonbeam is the result of how seamlessly all five members contributedto the creation of the album. The result is a record that swingslike a pendulum from heavy to tender, playful to weighty, paintinga sonic illustration of the pains and pleasures of being alive acrosseleven songs. What could suffer from a kitchen-sink approachinstead comes together brilliantly, a testament to the band's musicaland spiritual connection.With Patience, Moonbeam, Great Grandpa has crafted a triumphantdocument of what happens when your collaborators become yourchosen family.