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Catalogue No: BELLAV235C
John Grant used to front the Czars, whose failure to translate acclaim into sales no doubt further fuelled his supersized self-loathing. However, after descending into a personal hell of booze, drugs and giving up music for waiting tables, the Coloradan has emerged with a colossus. Backed by superfans Midlake, these are songs of impossible love, near-suicide and redemption, with an air of vastness and contemplation recalling Dennis Wilson's masterpiece, 'Pacific Ocean Blue'. With pianos and flutes, songs such as 'I Wanna Go to Marz' and 'Where Dreams Go to Die' combine a surreal, David Lynch, sideways look at capitalist America with choruses most artists could only dream about. The jauntier 'Silver Platter Club' and 'JC Hates Faggots' brutally poke fun at rich jocks and Grant's time as a gay child in a religious household respectively. But the emotionally wringing ballads - the witheringly honest 'Queen of Denmark' and Jeff Buckleyesque 'Caramel' - most suggest a man whose time has come.
Familiars
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The Doldrums
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The Mutt's Nuts (Translucent Orange)
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Death of a Cheerleader
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Down In The Woods
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(Self-Titled)
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Supermodels (Cloudy Vinyl)
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Setting the Dogs on The Post-Punk Postman
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Liars
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Blue
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Last Building Burning
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Waste A Moment
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Scaled And Icy
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Yungblud
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Closure/Continuation
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As The Light Leaks
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Love And Loathing
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The Golden Casket
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Thank Your Lucky Stars
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For All Our Days That Tear Our Heart
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Father Of All...
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The Deconstruction
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Ullages
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B-Sides And Rarities
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Heart Under (Translucent Blue Vinyl)
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The Soft Bounce
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The Crackdown
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Not Real
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Endless Rooms
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Expensive Sound (200g Vinyl)
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Early Live Life
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Break! EP
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Fat Pop (Volume 1)
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Sun (Yellow Vinyl)
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Still Life / Wishing Well
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Hyperspace
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Quiet The Room
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7
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C’mon You Know
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The Future And The Past
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Gargoyle
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When You See Yourself
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In The Garden
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The Alchemist's Euphoria
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We Come From the Sun
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Fire From Heaven
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Someone To Watch Over Me
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Favourite People
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