When I first saw the cover to this album, I thought I'd bought the wrong one. Was this a country album? A folk album? The track that I'd heard - moody electronica with very wry lyrics - did not seem to fit with the album cover.
But, by all accounts, that is John grant down to a tee! It has been said that is almost impossible to unpick John Grant's music from his personal life. He has suffered homophobic abuse, parental rejection, agoraphobia, depression, drug addiction and alcoholism, and was recently diagnosed HIV positive.
A collaboration with Birgir Thórarinsson of ace Icelandic electronic experimentalists Gus Gus, it's undoubtedly a dark and, at least initially, harsh-sounding album but it gets right under your skin after a few plays. I find I am playing it more and more often.
Pale Green Ghosts
Vietnam
Glacier
GMF
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