Boy from Michigan

The artist's latest punctuates intense and dark examinations of contemporary masculinity with moments of breathtaking beauty

John Grant's Boy From Michigan is intense, bizarre, and wonderfully playful

You want ten-minute songs about the evils of colonialism and Trump’s America? Step right this way!

A self-portrait with a violent colour palette.

As its title and pared-back cover suggest, Boy From Michigan is a personal, unadorned look into John Grant’s psyche.

God bless “Rhetorical Figure.” Arriving a little over halfway through John Grant’s new album Boy From Michigan, the song is unique, intelligent, bouncy, and deeply silly.

Grant forgoes his customary wit and wry emotion for a more direct style

Album Reviews: John Grant - Boy From Michigan

The ‘Michigan trilogy’ of songs at the start of the record are probably its strongest part

Ruminative fifth album from the prickly singer-songwriter. Review by Kieron Tyler

The state of him: ex-Czar turned auteur takes on toxic masculinity.