Great Grandpa Share First New Song in 5 Years

Since their beloved 2019 album Four of Arrows, fans have been clamoring for new music from the Great Grandpa. After five years, the Seattle five-piece have announced their return to music—and to one another—and their signing to Run For Cover Records with “kid,” an ethereal lead single whose Imogen Heap-like staticky monotone intro mourning the loss of what could’ve been gives way to a swell of strings and keys spinning together the sounds of a band being pulled back into one another’s orbit. Great Grandpa members Pat and Carrie Goodwin wrote “kid” following a miscarried pregnancy, and you can feel in it the simultaneous mourning and celebration of the fragility of life. It’s an acknowledgment of the mutual necessity of grief and love. It’s a reminder that even though we can’t hold onto everything we love, that ephemerality gives us all the more reason to try and do so anyway.