“‘Boy From Michigan’ opens with a psychedelic buzz of synths, then settles into a slick smooth jazz groove. John Grant begins the title track with a collage of small-town American vignettes: his mother sewing clothes; visits to apple farms; summer trips to the park. There’s a hint of simmering menace to it all – he recalls the terror of hearing about a neighbour’s narrow escape from a car crash – b”
“John Grant's Boy From Michigan is intense, bizarre, and wonderfully playful”
““Forty years later,” John Grant is crooning in that stately, oak-aged baritone, “and I’m still trying to run.” In the decade since his remarkable solo debut Queen of Denmark, Grant has sketched out the legacies of trauma – of running away and running to – across five records that burrowed from lush ’70s orchestration to more throbbing, nocturnal comedown colours. What we have here is more of the l”
“Despite the ripple of cosmic, Vangelistic synth that opens John Grant’s fifth album, the sardonic troubadour is looking not to the future, but to his past. Formative memories weigh heavy on this record, produced by Welsh wonder Cate Le Bon: the emergent sexuality fighting to stay hidden on the dreamy, clarinet-haunted textures of Mike and Julie; the lush, impressionistic amble through the stalls o”
