From the independent music station, K-E-X-P, you're listening to In Our Headphones, a podcast about the songs that we just can't stop listening to.

This is Evie Stokes, and this week I'm talking with my friend DJ Cheryl Waters.

So happy to have you.

I'm so happy to be here.

Cheryl, you brought a song to share with us today, and I'd love if you would tell me about that one.

Well, this great grandpa's song is just rocking my world right now.

I am a huge fan of Seattle band Great Grandpa, and they released their debut full-length,

plastic cough in 2017.

I just really felt like they're going to blow up.

They're going to make it big.

And they took a little bit of a break

in after their last album, Four Arrows and the pandemic came. But the band just kind of all went

their own way. Many of them moved different places and had kids and got married and just kind of

were like just doing their own thing for a while. But they've come back together now for this new album, Patience Moonbeam.

And it is so gorgeous. It came out March 28th. And they've evolved from this kind of grungy pop sound to a more folky indie sound, which the band says was just a natural progression as you grow and evolve and have life experience. And they've got some new

sort of song structures and production, which, you know, has changed things a little bit in the

sound of the record. But I think if you're a long time listener, you're obviously still going to

hear the thread that's at the heart that makes them great grandpa. But this new album definitely

is a shift in sound, a shift in maturity.

And all of the members contributed a lot to this record, which is a little bit different than how

they've done it in the past. And something that's noteworthy is that singer Al Many had recently

started taking testosterone. And I think it had been taking it for about a year when they started recording this album, and he was transitioning.

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