Last Place

Last Place is the fifth album by Grandaddy, released on March 3, 2017 via 30th Century Records.

Self-produced by the band’s frontman and primary recording artist Jason Lytle, the album is the first by Grandaddy since Just Like the Fambly Cat (2006) and the band’s prior break-up.

Lyrically inspired by Lytle’s divorce, the album was preceded by the singles, “Way We Won’t”, “A Lost Machine” and “Evermore”.

In a 2017 interview to Paste Magazine, Jason Lytle said about the places where the album was recorded:

There probably was only a tiny bit, like little bits and pieces, that took place in Montana. I had already kind of pulled up stakes and had moved to Portland for three years. The majority of it happened there, which coincidentally was also this period where I was in the middle of this big transitional personal shakeup—a changing-of-the-guard kind of situation. My big joke now is like, “Don’t try working on or finishing a record that you’re completely obsessed with while going through a divorce, living in one of the cloudiest, rainiest regions of the country, when you’re prone to depression and vitamin D deficiency.” I grew up in the sun, and I’m a very outdoorsy person. It was just not a good combo. So I’m back in California now, back in the area where I grew up. Things are clicking on a chemical level a lot better.