"The Crystal Lake" | ||||
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Single by Grandaddy | ||||
from the album The Sophtware Slump | ||||
A-side | "The Crystal Lake" | |||
B-side | "Our Dying Brains" | |||
Released | May 29, 2000 | |||
Format | CD, vinyl | |||
Genre | Indie rock | |||
Label | V2 | |||
Songwriter(s) | Jason Lytle | |||
Producer(s) | Jason Lytle | |||
Grandaddy singles chronology | ||||
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"The Crystal Lake" is a song by American indie rock band Grandaddy from their second album, The Sophtware Slump. It was released as a single on May 29, 2000 by record label V2, and was re-released in several formats in early 2001.
Grandaddy frontman Jason Lytle described the song as "that age-old story, repeated many times in country music, of the wayward soul who leaves a small town with hopes and dreams of the unknown and winds up full of regret in some horrible little apartment in an unfriendly city".
"The Crystal Lake" was released as a single on May 29, 2000. It peaked at number 38 on the UK Singles Chart.
The song was listed as the 295th best song of the 2000s by Pitchfork.