Name: Love Is Magic
Brand: John Grant

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Deluxe Double 140 Gram Clear Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve with Spot Varnish Finish. Comes with 300gsm Printed Inner Sleeves with Spot Varnish Finish, 16 page ‘Hymn Booklet’ containing lyrics, 24 P…

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Limited edition

Release date

2018-10-12

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PIAS

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Double 140 Gram Black Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve with Spot Varnish Finish. Comes with 300gsm Printed Inner Sleeves with Spot Varnish Finish, 16 page ‘Hymn Booklet’ containing lyrics and Download.

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Artist

John Grant

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Bella Union

With his fourth solo album, Love Is Magic, Grant has continued evolving, creating his most electronic record yet.

In collaboration with Benge (Ben Edwards), analogue synth expert / collector and a member of electronic trio Wrangler, Grant’s collaborators earlier this year under the collective name of Creep Show on the album Mr Dynamite. Anyone familiar with Grant’s story will recognise his battles - with addiction and health, with trusting love and relationships. From this turbulence he’s forged another riveting collection of often brutal diatribes and confessionals, where humour, fear, anxiety and anger overlap as Grant, with trademark candour, figuratively exposes the machinations of his saturated brain. It’s epitomised by the album’s brilliant opener Metamorphosis, almost as if his warring psyches are facing up to one another, as impervious synth-pop and brain-on-fire imagery (“Tiki bar, rat soufflé, Buik regal, Marvin Gaye”) melts into dream-ballad introspection (“Questions left unanswered, spiritual extortion”) and back to synth-backed mania. The magic of love pervades in two gorgeous, magisterial ballads toward the end of the album, Is He Strange and The Common Snipe - referring to the wader bird that makes a unique ‘bleating’ sound by rubbing its tailfeathers together.

2LP - Double 140 Gram Black Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve with Spot Varnish Finish. Comes with 300gsm Printed Inner Sleeves with Spot Varnish Finish, 16 page ‘Hymn Booklet’ containing lyrics and Download.

2LP+ - Deluxe Double 140 Gram Clear Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve with Spot Varnish Finish. Comes with 300gsm Printed Inner Sleeves with Spot Varnish Finish, 16 page ‘Hymn Booklet’ containing lyrics, 24 Page Photo Booklet (including photos taken by John Grant) and Download.