It's exciting to hear a band figure it out in real-time. The building blocks were always there for Great Grandpa. "Mostly Here," the song that closes out their new album Four Of Arrows, is originally from 2015, a shining outlier on their first EP, but here it's the climax of an album that more than earns the track's gigantic payoff. Although their 2017 debut full-length, Plastic Cough, had a handful of really good songs, it also sounded like they were relying a little too much on imitating a specific brand of spunky and sarcastic '90s-indebted rock. But it's clear from the start that Four Of Arrows is a massive level-up. You get the sense that this is the band that Great Grandpa have always wanted to be.
