Antony and the Johnsons

Add Date: January 20

Artist: Antony and the Johnsons

Album: The Crying Light

Label: Secretly Canadian

Genre: Folk, Avant-Classical

Comments: "The Crying Light is the highly anticipated full-length follow-up to I Am a Bird Now. Here, Antony...explores his relationship with the natural world. The intimacy of Johnsons' sound is enveloped by the symphonic arrangements of Antony, Nico, Muhly, Doug Wiselman, and Maxim Moston. The first moments of "Her Eyes Are Underneath the Ground" unveil an animist world in which the leaves are winking and the sun "...dances crystals in my eyes." The joyful ricochets of "Kiss My Name" and the spiraling waltz of "Epilepsy Is Dancing" are to follow. The record's centerpiece, "Another World" traces the singer's despair in the face of a vanishing landscape. ...

Antony and the Johnsons' music bridges the gap between avant-classical music and the blues, ...[and] is a soul-stirring new work with its daring compositions and captivating vocal performances. [They] have created a subtle and timely work that brings a magical and yet changing world to the forefront of our consciousness."
-Team Clermont



This guy's voice is absolutely unique and absolutely captivating. I typed all of the above out because I kept wanting to listen to more. Haunting, artful, close. RIYL: Joanna Newsom (and that's not something to throw around).