Since dissolving Grandaddy in 2006, Jason Lytle has been living in the mountains of Montana "recording nerd-style, geeked out in the house with the headphones on". His music has always been a strange combination of grandeur and humility, its slow, majestic chord sequences and long fade-outs brought down to earth by his baby voice and toy computer samples; as with Wilco, you get the sense of a complicated man, dressed like a lumberjack, given to bouts of gloom but essentially hopeful – there's even a song here called Somewhere There's a Someone ("who's wondering where I am"). It's melodically sweeter, and warmer, than his acclaimed Yours Truly, the Commuter – Last Problem of the Alps builds like Cohen's Hallelujah, while the gorgeous, eight-minute Gimme Click Gimme Grid talks loftily of "honesty between the beating wings", but is set to what sounds like the demo mode from your first Yamaha synth.