Grandaddy has released a new EP entitled 2020’s Over Covers, featuring poignant solo piano versions of Belle & Sebastian’s “The Fox In The Snow” and The Beach Boys “In My Room” by Grandaddy’s Jason Lytle. The recordings were initially released as B-sides to the Black Friday Record Store Day 12” vinyl EP “RIP Coyote Condo #5” in November of 2020.
“I’ve loved this Belle & Sebastian song for ages,” Lytle said. “I had to slow it down and tame the “bounce” that it had though,” says Lytle. “I wanted it sweeter and sadder. That’s how I hear it: sweet and sad.”
Lytle’s tender, sparse approach to “In My Room,” Brian Wilson’s classic hymn to solitude, is uniquely suited to the moment. “For anyone who claims introversion as a primary characteristic and has found themselves in some sort of career that requires communicating in public, this Beach Boys song is yours. Also, scarily fitting for just being anyone out there in the year 2020,” says Lytle.
Check out “In My Room” below...
