Album Review: Patience, Moonbeam by Great Grandpa

After years of sharing an apartment, in 2019, Great Grandpa weren't sure when they would all be in the same room, let alone be making music together. When the Seattle "snack rock" start-up did shack up again, they made one of the year's best albums with Four of Arrows. Work on their follow-up began in earnest the following fall, though life, uh, found a way to get in their way.

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The success of Patience, Moonbeam rests on a foundation of collaborative spirit. It's an album resulting from an "open door policy" that gave Great Grandpa's five members space to contribute to writing the album's 12 songs (previously, songwriting duties were helmed by Pat Goodwin). The result isn't a collage of ideas but a cohesive and ambitious leap forward that pulls from graceful folk rock, darker experimentations, and so much in between.

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Liberation at the inky black bottom of the stairwell "I want to go out there and get my nose broke, I want to go out there and get cut, something that's going to bring out the hurt, the pain…I want to FEEL that. " -Dennis Rodman To experience Great Grandpa's Patience, Moonbeam is to unlock and unblock a previously stifled tenderness and vulnerability. Over the course of its protracted six-year gestation, the Pacific Northwest quintet conglomerated with new purpose, intentionally adopting a more collaborative ethos in songwriting and spurning the authoritative direction of an outside producer's nitpicks and projections.

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Great Grandpa return after a six-year hiatus with their third album. They were working on a follow-up to 2019’s Four of Arrows in 2020 when COVID essentially shut them down. Time passed and members moved away from their home base in Seattle, drifting apart without officially breaking up. Frontman Al Menne spearheaded the effort to reunite the group in 2023, and the wide-ranging Patience, Moonbeam is the result.

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