Great Grandpa

Today, beloved band Great Grandpa return and present “Kid,” their first new single in 5 years, via their new label Run For Cover Records. There was a moment in the fall of 2020 when Great Grandpa – made of close-knit friends  Al Menne, Dylan Hanwright, Cam LaFlam, and Pat and Carrie Goodwin – didn’t know if they would go on. They had just begun work on the follow-up to 2019’s immensely praised Four of Arrows when each member was called in different directions—to new countries, new jobs, new life stages. But as with any good relationship built on mutual love, trust, and a mountain of shared history, the quintet—who grew up in Seattle and have been making music together for a decade—were drawn back into one another’s orbits in 2023. “Time passed and I missed my friends,” Al puts it simply. After reconnecting, the band decided to scrap most of what they had previously recorded, but the exhilarating “Kid” remained as a true standout.

“Kid”unfolds like a rock opera, moving deftly through a sea of melodies and scene changes. Pat and Carrie wrote the lyrics in the aftermath of the loss of their first pregnancy. “Things will happen when the timing is right,” Carrie reflects of that time, a sentiment that became the song’s glowing ember: “All good things in time define their meaning.”

From the sparkling pop-grunge of their first record Plastic Cough (2017), to the sprawling indie rock of Four of Arrows, Great Grandpa has been on a clear trajectory of both refining and re-defining their sonic identity. “Kid” is the first taste of more Great Grandpa to come.