Grandaddy — Below The Radio

Anyone familiar with the work of Jason Lytle, he of pastoral indie types Grandaddy, shouldn’t be surprised that his handpicked mixtapes are short on Pantera or Master P and long on like-minded slow-rollers like Giant Sand and Beulah. These 14 selections (plus one new Grandaddy tune) have the warm, enveloping comfortableness of a favourite sweater. Oddities and overlooked album tracks like Beck’s downtempo "We Live Again," Earlimart’s swoony "Color Bars" and Goldenboy’s twinkly "Wild Was The Night" populate this lush, string-soaked collection. The comp’s lazy, hour-plus daydream often feels like the fuzzy-headed after-effects of a codeine stupor, but as a tonic for the bustling hurly-burly of modern life, Below The Radio’s laconic splendor is the perfect prescription for your big-city blues. Do not ingest while operating heavy machinery.