Jason Lytle:The Dept Of Disappearance

When Grandaddy called it a day, Jason Lytle made two statements. Firstly, he said he was happy not to be traipsing across the world with four other people’s girlfriends. More pertinently, he claimed it was virtually impossible to make a living out of being a critically-acclaimed band. 
The Dept Of Disappearance certainly isn’t playing to the mainstream gallery. If anything it’s even a little more esoteric than his former band, who teetered on the brink of a breakthrough with ‘The Crystal Lake’, ‘Summer Here Kids’ and ‘A.M. 180’.
Opening with a nostalgic cassette intro bleep from the ‘80s, Lytle delightfully croons the soft focus title track: ‘Get Up & Go’ is full of soothing sentiments and is just the kind of song you’d prescribe to someone finding it hard to get up in the morning.  
Essentially, this is Grandaddy shorn of some of their psychedelic excesses, but with Lytle’s bug-eyed romanticism still to the fore. It’s impossible to listen to sonic nursery rhymes like ‘Willow Wand Willow Wand’ and sweet tunes like ‘Somewhere There’s A Someone’ without feeling a warm glow. Jason Lytle has a big heart. It’s about time the rest of the world took notice.