John GrantBest John Grant Albums Ranked
7.6
Avg Score
16
Opinions
5
Albums
7
Reviewers
Summary from 16 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated John Grant's catalog across 5 albums from 16 opinions, with an overall average of 7.6/10. The top-rated John Grant album is The Art of the Lie (2024) with a 8.2/10 average from 3 ratings, followed by Boy From Michigan and Love Is Magic. The discography on Wavelength spans 2013 to 2024.
The Art of the Lie
“The Art Of The Lie is a rich and satisfying return from John Grant”
Boy From Michigan
“‘Boy From Michigan’ opens with a psychedelic buzz of synths, then settles into a slick smooth jazz groove. John Grant begins the title track with a collage of small-town American vignettes: his mother sewing clothes; visits to apple farms; summer trips to the park. There’s a hint of simmering menace to it all – he recalls the terror of hearing about a neighbour’s narrow escape from a car crash – b”
Boy From Michigan
“John Grant's Boy From Michigan is intense, bizarre, and wonderfully playful”
Love Is Magic
“An epic of squelching synthesisers and breathlessly far-ranging lyrics – touching on everything from broccoli and cheese to ISIS – John Grant’s fourth solo album, ‘Love Is Magic’ leaves nothing untouched. An often absurd search for meaning in a world jammed full of white noise, violence and distraction, the prevailing message beneath the onslaught is a simple one: “Love is magic, whether you like ”
Love Is Magic
“John Grant returns with the brave, compelling Love Is Magic”
Boy From Michigan
““Forty years later,” John Grant is crooning in that stately, oak-aged baritone, “and I’m still trying to run.” In the decade since his remarkable solo debut Queen of Denmark, Grant has sketched out the legacies of trauma – of running away and running to – across five records that burrowed from lush ’70s orchestration to more throbbing, nocturnal comedown colours. What we have here is more of the l”
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