John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts

His tracks on the 2014 Hercules & Love Affair album are terrific, extensions of Pale Green Ghosts' coffee house electronica. It's been diminishing returns ever since.

So the concert was awesome. He really pulls off the new songs well live. The harmonies are great. He also spoke to us in perfect French many times. Added bonus, none other than the ledgendary Budgie is behind the drumkit and I got to speak with him and take pictures after the show.

Wait, hold the fuck on, that was BUDGIE? How did I not clock that.

I gotta agree with LeRoo, just a wonderful show here in SF last night. "Pale Green Ghosts" got a particularly wonderful arrangement, queasily wonderful dark 80s electronics, and after it he said that reflected "four years of listening to Ministry's "Over the Shoulder" 12"...greatest remix ever." My girlfriend loved how the new album's "Metamorphosis" sounded live, saying it felt absolutely terrifying at the end. The main set closer of "Sensitive New Age Guy," "Glacier" and "Queen of Denmark" was an astounding 1-2-3.

Yes! PGG was huge and "Metamorphosis" is better live than on the album.

Budgie came down in the club after the show to buy a drink from the bar. When I started talking to him he said he was just taking it to John backstage and would come back to chat, and he actually did! Really nice guy and I was pretty starstruck.

There's a new track today, apparently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecBpAwovikg

One of my favorite albums of the decade.

oooh cate le bon produced this new one...fingers crossed it breaks his streak of weirdly lousy albums

"the only boy" is also on this. it sounds really nice. the lyrics are a bit much. it probably shouldn't be ten minutes long.

I thought this revive was going to be related to the Facebook ad that uses "Black Belt":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ekg56Ji56o

beard man gets paid

I was gonna mention it in the PSB/Tag Team thread.

Ha I was going to mention it, too

I finally am catching up on the albums after Pale Green Ghosts and just started Love Is Magic and, well... there's pretty much no way the live version of "Metamorphosis" could be worse

he's obviously a brilliant guy and a great singer but my suspicion is he needs just the right collaborators to shield him from his worst instincts...this is why I'm semi hopeful about the new one

I think Colonel Mustard did it in the billiard room / Yeah yeah

I might have to peace out on this

Have posted this on the Gus Gus thread but worth putting here, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3mwdn0rYjA