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!
John Grant's music has grown increasingly ambitious and contemplative since Grey Tickles, Black Pressure, and Boy from Michigan is no exception.
As its title and pared-back cover suggest, Boy From Michigan is a personal, unadorned look into John Grant’s psyche.
Which is why John Grant’s latest album Boy From Michigan has thrown me for a loop as it manages to somehow reconcile these two opposing sides of psych and offer an expansive, personal and for the most part highly enjoyable take on modern psychedelic music.
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.
The ‘Michigan trilogy’ of songs at the start of the record are probably its strongest part