John Grant: Grey Tickles, Black Pressure

If John had ditched the ill-advised cod rap numbers, this would be a great Stephin Merritt album.

'There were times when I thought, “I’d like to fucking beat to death the people who are saying that I don’t deserve to breathe the same air as them.” So I wanted to honestly touch on those things. I think it’s a really big piece of a lot of homosexual lives.'

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