#john grant

“We live for but an instant on the crest of a cataract. Before this life we are part of a stormy river, and after this life we are all joined together in the pool that is greater and stiller than any other pool there ever was or ever could be. The fullness of Life is not the instant we spend at the top of the waterfall, but also the before, when we are a part of the river, and the after, when we plunge to become a part of the pool.”

“Thus did the Girl-Child LoChi make our thoughts real, for without these two things that she brought back from the caverns of flame, the wit that makes laughter and the imagining that is music, our thoughts would be no more than dead leaves, stale and barren memories of the living thoughts that the first dragons once had.”

I Hate This Town // John Grant // Pale Green Ghosts (2013)

John Grant, "All That School for Nothing" (May 2024)

Funky, strange, modern AND cynical, this song was made for me

A.B. Cook, "Soulbreaker" (April 2024)

The (wild, spectacular, great concept) video is integral to my love of this song, but it's a banger on its own, especially on a late night city drive.

TWRP, "Content 4 U" (March 2024)

As an independent artist I basically just make the "Lisa Simpson staring dead-eyed into nothing" face if I think about this one too hard, but it makes me dance all the same. Even after blowing up, these guys still understand. (Side note, if you ever have the chance to see TWRP live, do it; it's some of the most fun, positive energy I've ever felt at a show.)

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, "Antarctica" (August 2024) and "Set" (fall 2023)

Sinéad O'Connor: "I never made sense to anyone, even myself, unless I was singing. Onstage, I can always be who I really am. Offstage, not so much. If I hope for anything as an artist, it’s that I inspire certain people to be who they really are. My audiences seem to be people who have been given a hard time for being who they are." - Rememberings