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According to Grandaddy's Jason Lytle, the band has completed recording their new album and is nearly done mixing it. Speaking to Pitchfork, Lytle revealed that the record is tentatively entitled Sumday, and though it's not yet in the can, he's pretty sure it will be a two-disc set. A double-album? Fuck, yeah, that harkens back to a day when life was much simpler, before national forests were littered with broken household appliances; when you didn't have to de-seed your pot, before Peter Frampton was making lame cameos in rock movies. The album is expected to see release this spring. Tracklist:

Disc One:
01 Now It's On
02 I'm on Standby
03 The Go in the Go-For-It
04 The Group Who Couldn't Say
05 Lost on Yer Merry Way
06 El Caminos in the West
07 Stray Dog and the Chocolate Shake

Disc Two:
01 Yeah Is What We Had
02 O.K. with My Decay
03 The Saddest Vacant Lot in All the World
04 The Warming Sun
05 Fare Thee Not Well Mutineer
06 The Final Push to the Sum...

As with Grandaddy's last album, The Sophtware Slump, their latest offering was recorded and produced by Lytle and his friend of many years, Lucky Lew. The band laid down all the tracks in Lytle's home studio, where they were recorded on two-inch analog tape. Analog tape? Fuck yeah! That harkens back to a day when... well, actually, lots of bands still use analog tape. Michael Brauer mixed the record last December at Quad Studios in New York. "This album was recorded in pretty much the same precise manner as every other record we've made. There are usually very intense work spurts and enthusiasm and high-fives, followed by frustrating periods of downtime as a result of exhaustion, apathy, substance abuse, and a need for stimulation which comes from things non-musical like movies, books, skateboarding or just wandering around," said Lytle. Sounds like a Pitchfork News brainstorm session. We dig it already!

In other Grandaddy news, the band's very own record label, Sweat of the Alps, is now an official, growing concern, with a website and all. As previously reported by Pitchfork, the label's first release is a posthumous platter by the now-defunct band Arm of Roger. The California group's "very bizarre album," The Ham and Its Lily should be available shortly, along with the label's second release, Hopalong, by Oakdale, California band Built Like Alaska. Stay tuned to the label's site for forthcoming details.