John Grant - Love Is MagicWith his fourth solo album,Love Is Magic, Grant has continued evolving, creating his most electronic record yet, in collaboration with Benge (Ben Edwards), analogue synth expert collector and a member of electronic trio Wrangler, Grants collaborators earlier this year under the collective name of Creep Show on the albumMr Dynamite. Anyone familiar with Grants story will recognise his battles with addiction and health, with trusting love and

generally at a frenetic pace

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hits of dreamy melancholy and an unflinching willingness to experiment without forfeiting big hooks and big pop songs

It is this implausible balancing act

not even Axelrod himself

Composers and artists include ballroom band legends such as Edmundo Ros

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The first reissue on vinyl of Aksak Maboul’s classic 1980 LP

conducting and recruiting a thirteen piece flute orchestra which will be on the road with her next year

‘Re-arrange’ and ‘Medicine’ are all natural fits for an Unplugged performance

impressive in their scope and restraint as they mold classic rock lyricism into new and personal shapes without sound revivalist or retro

classical and avant-garde stylings with intricate polyrhythmic textures and lyrical nods to the legends of Faust and Odysseus