{"id":1784,"date":"2018-08-28T14:30:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T13:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2018-08-29T12:45:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T11:45:52","slug":"john-grant-love-is-magic-12oct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/john-grant-love-is-magic-12oct\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-sale of the week: John Grant \u2013 <em>Love Is Magic<\/em>, out 12 October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"John Grant - Love Is Magic\" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/offers.php#r181012_JohnGrant\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centre aligncenter\" title=\"John Grant - Love Is Magic\" src=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/img\/rls\/offer\/1810\/JohnGrant.jpg\" alt=\"John Grant - Love Is Magic\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Each record I make is more of an amalgamation of who I truly am,<\/em>\u201d says <strong>John Grant<\/strong>. \u201c<em>The more I do this, the more I trust in myself, and the further along I go.<\/em>\u201d Even on his debut solo album <em>Queen Of Denmark<\/em> in 2010, the Michigan-born man released laced sumptuous soft-rock ballads with an array of spacey, wistful synthesiser sounds. Taut, fizzing sequencers, nu-synth-disco settings and icy soundscapes took an increasing role in the mix on 2013\u2019s <em>Pale Green Ghosts<\/em> and 2015\u2019s <em>Grey Tickles, Black Pressure<\/em>, described by the <em>Guardian<\/em> as: \u201c<em>variously agonising, hilarious, uplifting and moving: another bravura display from a unique song-writing talent.<\/em>\u201d Now, with his fourth solo album, <strong><em>Love Is Magic<\/em><\/strong>, Grant has continued evolving, creating his most electronic record yet.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note:<\/em> the LP is an <strong>exclusive indies-only<\/strong> version.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re offering <a title=\"John Grant - Love Is Magic\" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/offers.php#r181012_JohnGrant\"><em>Love Is Magic<\/em><\/a> at <strong class=\"darkred\">special pre-sale prices<\/strong>, which won\u2019t be available after release. <a href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/offers.php#r181012_JohnGrant\">Click here<\/a> for more details and to order your copy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEach record I make is more of an amalgamation of who I truly am,\u201d says John Grant. \u201cThe more I do this, the more I trust in myself, and the further along I go.\u201d Even on his debut solo album Queen Of Denmark in 2010, the Michigan-born man released laced sumptuous soft-rock ballads with an&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,159],"tags":[380,36,829,830,194],"class_list":["post-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","category-promotions","tag-john-grant","tag-new-release","tag-pre-sale-of-the-week","tag-pre-sale-offers","tag-special-offer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1785,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions\/1785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}