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State
The core of Pale Green Ghosts comes in a three-song, mid-album stretch as rawly affecting as anything Grant has done
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musicOMH
This is undoubtedly one of the best albums of the year and after so many thwarted attempts, the world is finally Grant’s for the taking
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The Guardian
A genuinely remarkable album: self-obsessed but completely compelling, profoundly discomforting but beautiful, lost in its own fathomless personal misery, but warm, funny and wise. It shouldn't work, but it does
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Independent on Sunday
Grant can barely acknowledge his laurels, let alone rest on them
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No Ripcord
Grant’s work here aims at something much more rare than perfect – to be entirely necessary
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Daily Telegraph
Astonishingly good
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The Arts Desk
One of 2013’s best
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Clash
While it may not sound exactly as you were expecting, it is a bold, distinctive and genuinely excellent record.
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The 405
John Grant has been through a hell of a lot in his 44 years and Pale Green Ghosts stands as a testament to being open, honest and creative when it matters most
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BBC
Grant swaps pastoral 70s sounds for synth-pop on a stunning second solo LP
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Paste Magazine
John Grant is one of the most enigmatic, endearing vocalists making music today
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The Quietus
His second is branching out into the more experimental, atmospheric and even psychedelic – it's a more challenging task but one that perhaps ultimately yields richer rewards
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The Line Of Best Fit
An album of electronic pop, a genre Grant appears to have dived into head first, emerging with results that are as confusing as they are successful
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Uncut
It is arguably more satisfying than Queen of Denmark in its artistic courage, its refusal to meet expectations
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NME
Grant's rich voice dovetails beautifully with the silvery synths
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8.0
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Q
While the album's sonic benchmark is the new wave synth epoch of Grant's adolescence, there are still songs influenced by the likes of Bread and The Carpenters. Print edition only
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God Is In The TV
An album truly of it’s time: false-modest, infuriatingly passive-aggressive yet monumentally artistically ambitious, all at the same time
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The Scotsman
This follow-up applies his creamy baritone and frank, irreverent lyrics to a predominantly electronic soundtrack
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Evening Standard
Bonkers but brilliant
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7.0
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Drowned In Sound
There's the occasional dud, and occasional dull moment, but Pale Green Ghosts mostly succeeds in expanding Grant's musical palette
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Pitchfork
Grant's ease of disclosure can be unnerving, but it's this sense that nothing is (seemingly) too private for him to share in a song that makes Pale Green Ghosts so potent and, ultimately, accessible
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7.0
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DIY
Having moved through the 70’s and 80’s in the course of two albums we can only assume his third will see him dusting off his parka and ‘aving it Britpop style
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Mojo
Both novel and familiar. There's stark electronica and sumptuous balladry.Print edition only
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The Observer
Just as involving as his previous outing
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All Music
While all of the over-sharing can be a little overbearing, Grant's huge, expressive, and oddly comforting voice acts as a sedative, turning even the saddest, raunchiest, and most uncomfortable turn of phrase into a caress
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