JOHN GRANT

Synth-driven prog music for people with Indie Pop hearts - John Grant is in sweeping, grandiose form taking the tongue-in-cheek histrionics of Father John Misty and recalibrating them through the lens of moog exploration to oddly devastating effect.

Grant's sixth album is his most opulent, cinematic, luxurious record yet and confirms his status as a modern electronic auteur. Grant likens the musical flavours of 'The Art of the Lie' to the sumptuous Vangelis soundtrack for Bladerunner or the Carpenters if John Carpenter were also a member. While undeniably a John Grant record, nestling humour into tragedy, bleeding anger into compassion, there is a musical ambition and nerve to ‘The Art of the Lie’ which offsets its most political and personal moments.