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Patience, Moonbeam by Great Grandpa

Great Grandpa

Patience, Moonbeam

Release Date: Mar 28, 2025

Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock

Record label: Run for Cover Records

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Album Review: Patience, Moonbeam by Great Grandpa

Fairly Good, Based on 3 Critics

The Line of Best Fit - 90
Based on rating 9/10

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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Sputnikmusic - 80
Based on rating 4.0/5

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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PopMatters - 10
Based on rating 1/10

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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