Boy From Michigan

Description

John Grant is back with the release of his highly anticipated fifth album Boy from Michigan on Bella Union/[PIAS]. Produced by Cate Le Bon, this new album is his most autobiographical work to date. Somewhere over the last decade, John Grant has established himself as one of the great musical chroniclers of the American dream, primarily from the perspective of its downside. Through the 12 tracks of the album, Grant lays all this out in a meticulous cross-examination. In ten years of creating solo records, he has playfully experimented with mood, texture, and sound to deliver today one of his most beautiful and personal albums to date. At one end of his musical spectrum, he is the heartbroken piano man, and at the other, a robust electronic singer-songwriter. Boy from Michigan marries the two in complete transparency. A rare gem.