John Grant (2013) Pale Green Ghosts [FLAC]

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Artist: John Grant
Release: Pale Green Ghosts
Discogs: 4361438
Released: 2013-03-04 / 2013
Label: Bella Union
Catalog#: BELLACD377X / BELLACD377
Format: FLAC / Lossless / Log (100%) / Cue / CD
Country: Europe
Style: Electronic, Rock, Folk, World, Country, Synth-pop, Folk Rock

Tracklisting:

01. Pale Green Ghosts (6:03)
02. Black Belt (4:18)
03. GMF (5:13)
04. Vietnam (5:28)
05. It Doesnt Matter To Him (6:26)
06. Why Dont You Love Me Anymore (6:11)
07. You Dont Have To (5:53)
08. Sensitive New Age Guy (4:41)
09. Ernest Borgnine (4:53)
10. I Hate This Town (4:03)
11. Glacier (7:37)

Credits: Show

Go on and love me while its still a crime, challenges the mordant, former Czars frontman on his astonishingly good second solo album, Just dont forget you could be laughing 65 per cent more of the time. But Grant brilliantly skewers his own depression, addiction, bitchiness and heartbreak throughout a record which finds him mixing his penchant for corduroy, laid-back melodies with a new, rawly exposed synth-pop that feels like its seeped up from an underground carpark, all hard concrete and cold, flickering fluorescents. A new light under which Grant can pick at his wounds.
Vitriol for a callypigian ex-boyfriend burns through so many of the songs that he almost called the album The Anger Stage. Against the the dark, throbbing disco of Black Belt he sneers: You are supercilious, pretty and ridiculous/ You got really good taste, you know how to cut and paste while Vietnam, whose sound brings back memories of the glossy 80s despair of The Cars -- sees him comparing the same man to Agent Orange, while admitting: I simply cannot find inside of me/ The requisite press on. Its gloriously cathartic whilst always swerving shy of mawkish self-indulgence.
The wonderful GMF which sways between self-aggrandisement and self-loathing -- is a return to the 70s sound of Queen of Denamrk, woven with gorgeous ribbons of chocolate-velvet harmony from Sinead OConnor. The album ends with Glacier, matching grand, Rachmaninovian piano ascents with some realistically soothing words. Pain, says the man who was diagnosed HIV-positive in 2011, is a glacier moving through you/ And carving out deep valleys/ And creating spectacular landscapes/ And nourishing the ground/ With precious minerals and other stuff/ So dont you become paralyzed with fear/ When things seem particularly rough.

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