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John Grant began thinking about his sixth album, 'The Art of The Lie', in the Autumn of 2022. Earlier that year, John had been introduced to Ivor Guest, producer and composer at Grace Jones' Southbank show, the finale of her Meltdown Festival. A year and a half later, the result was John Grant's most opulent, cinematic, luxurious album yet: 'The Art of The Lie'. As the title suggests, the lyrical ingenuity counterweighted under all this considered musical largesse is as dark as its production is epic and bold. Ivor Guest and his cast-list of storied musicians have brought the drama, flecks of intrigue as beguiling as Laurie Anderson or The Art of Noise. John Grant has earthed it in deeply felt humanity and pitch-black realism.

Grant likens the musical flavours of The Art of the Lie to the sumptuous Vangelis soundtrack for Blade Runner or 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 'The Art of the Lie' which offsets its most political and personal moments.