Blogovision 2019, best albums of the decade, no.11: John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts

But I am the greatest motherfucker that you're ever gonna meet

From the top of my head, down to the tips of the toes on my feet

So go ahead and love me while it's still a crime

And don't forget, you could be laughing sixty-five percent more of the time

You could be laughing sixty-five percent more of the time

Lyrics from GMF by John Grant, from his album Pale Green Ghosts

Blogovision 2018 no.15: John Grant - Love Is Magic

Is he strange

Or is it you, who never

Saw the light?

Decades of everything wrong

Give way to everything right

Lyrics from Is He Strange by John Grant from his album Love is Magic

Blogovision/My top-20 albums of the year - no.06: John Grant - Grey Tickles, Black Pressure

The paranoia, the uncertainty
The stupid knowing way they're grinning when they look at me
They say it's me, how do they know
My mind and body have betrayed me and it shows
My brain reboots each time the sun begins to shine
And if I didn't know better then I'd swear to you that it's not mine
I can't control my face, I can't avoid that furrowed brow
Would've thought they'd send someone right over to show me how

Lyrics from Geraldine by John Grant, from the album Grey Tickles, Black Pressure

Top-20 Albums of 2013, no.2: John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts

This is John Grant's most mature work to date - and his most heartfelt too. Going through depression, only to come out of it, seemingly on top of the world with a new (then) album and finding out you are HIV positive, is not anywhere near normal. But then Grant's life was not normal to begin with. The album worked as a therapy for him, without resorting into self-hate, or making every other song a lament mired in self-pity. Instead he revels in self-depreciation, making great music and moving one, even if it is one small step at a time. He is heartbreakingly honest and raw, being the definition of wearing his heart on his sleeve, musically that is. And in today's façade-important world, this is of great importance, anywhere one can find it. Start here.

no.03: Daft Punk: Random Access Memories
no.04: Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience 2 of 2
no.05: Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience 1 of 2
no.06: London Grammar - If You Wait
no.07: The National - Trouble Will Find Me
no.08: Anna Calvi - One Breath
no.09: James Blake - Overgrown
no.10: Poliça - Shulamith
no.11: Scott Matthew - Unlearned
no.12: Phosphorescent - Muchacho
no.13: Laura Mvula - Sing For The Moon
no.14: The Ballet - I Blame Society
no.15: Son Lux - Lanterns
no.16: Gustaf Spetz - Saknaden
no.17: Daughter - If You Leave
no.18: Larry Gus - Years Not Living
no.19: Pan Pan - Missing Two Trains On Purpose 
no.20: inc. - No World