Sofa Session: John Grant
John Grant plays a Sofa Session for Will, including music from his new album, Boy From Michigan.
John Grant plays a Sofa Session for Will, including music from his new album, Boy From Michigan.
What if everything you were promised, if you worked hard, loved hard, played and prayed hard, it all turned to ash? Grant lays it all out for careful cross-examination in his most autobiographical work to date. In a decade of making records by himself, he has playfully experimented with mood, texture and sound. At one end of his musical rainbow, he is the battle-scarred piano-man, at the other, a robust electronic auteur. Boy from Michigan seamlessly marries both.
With longtime friend Cate Le Bon in the production chair, Grant has maximized the emotional impact of the melodies, creating a fruitful, spare, strangely orchestrated new world for him to live in.
βCate and I are both very strong-willed peopleβ, says Grant. βMaking a record is hard on a good day. The mounting stress of the US election and the pandemic really started to get to us by late July and August. It was at times a very stressful process under the circumstances, but one which was also full of many incredible and joyful moments.β
John Grant is touring the UK and Ireland in September and October.
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Manic Street Preachers
A Design For Life
- Everything Must Go - 20th Anniversary Edition.
- Columbia.
- 16.
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Inhaler
It Won't Always Be Like This
- It Won't Always Be Like This.
- Polydor Records.
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Damon Albarn
Polaris
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Tori Amos
Cornflake Girl
- (CD Single).
- East West Records.
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Wolf Alice
No Hard Feelings
- Blue Weekend.
- Dirty Hit.
- 10.
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Jill Scott
Golden
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The White Lamp
Harmony
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Cassius
See Me Now
- 15 Again.
- 7.
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John Grant
TITLE (Sofa Session, 6 January 2021)
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John Grant
Marz (Sofa Session, 14 July 2021)
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John Grant
TITLE (Sofa Session, 6 January 2021)
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Tommy James & the Shondells
Draggin' The Line
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Arcade Fire
No Cars Go
- Neon Bible.
- Merge.
- 10.
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Yxngxr1
Pigeons
- Digikid 2.
- STORM GVNG / EMPIRE.
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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Where the Wild Roses Grow (feat. Kylie Minogue)
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Bill Withers
Ain't No Sunshine
- Shades Of Soul (Various Artists).
- Global Television.
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