John Grant - Queen Of Denmark Format:LP - Black Vinyl (and Mercury Award wiining) is

(and Mercury Award wiining) is the haunting and affecting I Am a Bird Now - a far more intimate affair than their debut

Helena's fight-to protect her lost history and to preserve the last remaining shreds of her former self-is just beginning

as well as those who mean her harm

Listening to The Softies has always felt like peeking into a diary

but not as we know it: civilisation has rebuilt after an unspoken 'Something that Happened' five hundred years before

John Grant - Queen Of Denmark Format:LP - Black Vinyl (and Mercury Award wiining) isJohn Grant used to front the Czars, whose failure to translate acclaim into sales no doubt further fuelled his supersized self loathing. However, after descending into a personal hell of booze, drugs and giving up music for waiting tables, the Coloradan has emerged with a colossus. Backed by superfans Midlake, these are songs of impossible love, near suicide and redemption, with an air of vastness and contemplation recalling Dennis Wilson's