Great Grandpa unveil new single/video “Ladybug” from their new album Patience, Moonbeam out March 28th via Run For Cover Records.
Earlier this year, Great Grandpa announced their long-awaited album, Patience, Moonbeam, out March 28th via Run For Cover Records. Today, they present a new single/video, “Ladybug.”
Following the “riveting folk odyssey” “Junior,” “Kid,” and “Doom,” “Ladybug” is playful and exuberant. Its collaboratively written lyrics lean whimsical, “dressed like Donald Glover on a GQ cover” and “you’re just a ladybug, dressed like Mama Duggar as a 90s mother.”
The song’s accompanying video, directed by the band’s Dylan Hanwright, features footage taken from the band’s recording sessions and tours.
The band elaborates on the track:
“Every once in a while you find yourself tripping on a beautiful day with a best friend and stumble into the middle of a stranger's wedding in a park.
It's always these small fickle, fleeting moments we're seeking that can never be bottled or sustained. What good luck does the ladybug bring?
We scream together for those shared seconds of unadulterated joy. We'll feel ok when it comes back again right? Kid Cudi did it first.”
Great Grandpa is the tight-knit group of Al Menne, Dylan Hanwright, Cam LaFlam, and Pat and Carrie Goodwin. Patience, Moonbeam, the follow-up to 2019’s critically acclaimed Four of Arrows, is a triumphant document of what happens when your collaborators become your chosen family. When you make the decision to return to each other even after the winds of change have taken you apart.
When you find that growing up and out in different directions only brings you closer together.
Perhaps what is most notable about Patience, Moonbeam is how seamlessly all five members contributed to the songwriting and arrangements on the album, celebrating and showcasing their individual voices while still managing to create something cohesive and whole. While Pat was credited as the main songwriter on Four of Arrows and wrote much of the bedrock for Patience, Moonbeam, the writing and recording process for this album saw a looser, more inclusive atmosphere overall, with the band members citing an “open door policy” and frequently returning to the idea of what “serves the song” as an antidote to any intrusions of ego.
What could suffer from a kitchen-sink approach instead comes together brilliantly, a testament to the band’s musical and spiritual connection.
“We’re all like individual swinging pendulums,”
says Dylan,
“and every now and then we come into sync for a few rotations. Sometimes it’s two of us, sometimes three of us, often it’s not any of us. But when it does come together, it’s really beautiful.”
Earlier this year, Great Grandpa played live for the first time in five years. They were highly-anticipated, leading to sold-out shows across the East Coast. Next month, the band will round off their North American tour with a sold-out show in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Tickets for SF are still available and are on sale now.
Photo by Rachel Bennett
Great Grandpa Tour Dates
Fri. Mar. 21 - Los Angeles, CA @ Highland Park Ebell - SOLD OUT
Sun. Mar. 23 - San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop