John Grant by Hörður Sveinsson
John Grant sets his new album for release on June 14th.
John Grant has unveiled his next studio record The Art Of The Lie with its lead single It’s A Bitch.
The track is simply about, ‘having fun with words, synths and dope rhythms’, according to Grant, whose sketches for the album go back to the autumn of 2022 after meeting Ivor Guest at Grace Jones’ Meltdown Festival show.
“This album is in part about the lies people espouse and the brokenness it breeds and how we are warped and deformed by these lies,” Grant has said.
For example, the Christian Nationalist movement has formed an alliance with White Supremacist groups and together they have taken over the Republican party and see LGBTQ+ people and non-whites as genetically and even mentally inferior and believe all undesirables must be forced either to convert to Christianity and adhere to the teachings of the Bible as interpreted by them or they must be removed in order that purity be restored to ‘their’ nation.
“They now believe Democracy is not the way to achieve these goals. Any sort of pretense of tolerance that may have seemed to develop over the past several decades has all but vanished. It feels like the U.S. in is free-fall mode.”
The Art Of The Lie tracklist:
All That School For Nothing
Marbles
Father
Mother And Son
Twistin Scriptures
Meek AF
It’s A Bitch
Daddy
The Child Catcher
Laura Lou
Zeitgeist
John Grant tour dates:
October
17 London, Hackney Church
19 Sunderland, The Fire Station
21 Glasgow, Barrowland Ballroom
22 Dublin, Vicar Street
24 Cardiff, Tramshed
25 Bristol, Bristol Beacon
26 Bexhill, De La Warr Pavilion
28 Birmingham, Birmingham Town Hall
29 Norwich, Epic Studios
31 Manchester, New Century Hall
November
1 Leeds, Project House
2 Liverpool, Liverpool Philharmonic
5 Amsterdam, Melkweg MAX
6 Cologne, Kulturkirche
7 Berlin, Columbia Theatre
9 Aarhus, Train
10 Copenhagen, Vega
11 Stockholm, Nalen
13 Oslo, Rockefeller Music Hall
