{"id":3346,"date":"2024-03-26T14:30:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T14:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=3346"},"modified":"2024-03-25T17:10:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T17:10:21","slug":"john-grant-art-of-the-lie-14jun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/john-grant-art-of-the-lie-14jun\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-sale of the week: John Grant \u2013 <em>The Art of the Lie<\/em>, out 14 June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"John Grant - The Art of the Lie\" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.co.uk\/products\/john-grant-the-art-of-the-lie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centre aligncenter\" title=\"John Grant - The Art of the Lie\" src=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/img\/rls\/offer\/2406\/JohnGrant.jpg\" alt=\"John Grant - The Art of the Lie\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Grant<\/strong>\u2019s sixth album is his most opulent, cinematic, luxurious record yet and confirms his status as a modern electronic auteur. Grant likens the musical flavours of <strong><em>The Art of the Lie<\/em><\/strong> to the sumptuous Vangelis soundtrack for Bladerunner, or to The Carpenters if John Carpenter were also a member. While undeniably a John Grant record, nestling humour into tragedy, bleeding anger into compassion, there is a musical ambition and nerve to <em>The Art of the Lie<\/em> which offsets its most political and personal moments.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note<\/em>: The LP is initially available on limited-edition <strong>pink vinyl<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"John Grant - The Art of the Lie\" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.co.uk\/products\/john-grant-the-art-of-the-lie\">Click here<\/a> for more details and to order your copy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Grant\u2019s sixth album is his most opulent, cinematic, luxurious record yet and confirms his status as a modern electronic auteur. Grant likens the musical flavours of The Art of the Lie to the sumptuous Vangelis soundtrack for Bladerunner, or to The Carpenters if John Carpenter were also a member. While undeniably a John Grant&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-3346","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\/3346","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=3346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3347,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346\/revisions\/3347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}