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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.

鈥淐ate and I are both very strong-willed people鈥�, says Grant. 鈥淢aking 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.鈥�

John Grant is touring the UK and Ireland in September and October.

1 hour, 30 minutes

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Wed 14 Jul 2021 19:30
成人快手 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Manic Street Preachers

    A Design For Life

    • Everything Must Go - 20th Anniversary Edition.
    • Columbia.
    • 16.

  • Inhaler

    It Won't Always Be Like This

    • It Won't Always Be Like This.
    • Polydor Records.

  • Damon Albarn

    Polaris

  • Tori Amos

    Cornflake Girl

    • (CD Single).
    • East West Records.

  • Wolf Alice

    No Hard Feelings

    • Blue Weekend.
    • Dirty Hit.
    • 10.

  • Jill Scott

    Golden

  • The White Lamp

    Harmony

  • Cassius

    See Me Now

    • 15 Again.
    • 7.

  • John Grant

    TITLE (Sofa Session, 6 January 2021)

  • John Grant

    Marz (Sofa Session, 14 July 2021)

  • John Grant

    TITLE (Sofa Session, 6 January 2021)

  • Tommy James & the Shondells

    Draggin' The Line

  • Arcade Fire

    No Cars Go

    • Neon Bible.
    • Merge.
    • 10.

  • Yxngxr1

    Pigeons

    • Digikid 2.
    • STORM GVNG / EMPIRE.

  • Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

    Where the Wild Roses Grow (feat. Kylie Minogue)

  • Bill Withers

    Ain't No Sunshine

    • Shades Of Soul (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

Broadcast

  • Wed 14 Jul 2021 19:30
    成人快手 Radio 2