Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
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Artist: Antony and the JohnsonsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-02-01
Music Label: Secretly Canadian
Soundtracks:
- Hope There's Someone
- My Lady Story
- For Today I Am A Bouy
- Man Is The Baby
- You Are My Sister
- What Can I Do?
- Fistful Of Love
- Spiralling
- Free At Last
- Bird Gurhl
Free Music Notes for I Am a Bird Now
Free Music Review: Wonderful.
Hit: 5 Stars
I read every poor review of this album, and every person said the same thing: they can't stand Antony's voice.
I think it's beautiful and I could listen to it and his incredible music all day (and I have). Antony makes me very happy.
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It's not often that an album released in January gets called one of the best of the year in near-unison, but the second full length by Antony and the Johnsons is so startlingly beautiful that it simply has to be. Like his friend and compatriot Devendra Banhart, Antony is a super-talented singer-songwriter with a flair for dramatic artsong. But the cherubic Antony is so original he must get mistaken for an alien quite often; he sings like a bluesy opera singer and switches timbre from masculine to feminine in the space of a breath. The only vocal comparison that comes close is Nina Simone. Antony's honest lyrics deal with deep wounds and troubled desires with matter of fact poetry and subtle humor, as in a short story by JT LeRoy. Aided and abetted by a versatile band that's often closer to chamber orchestra than rock act, Antony delivers a visionary album with I Am A Bird Now. Oh yeah: Rufus Wainwright, Devendra, Lou Reed and Boy George all appear on here, too. --Mike McGonigalSinger-songwriter/pianist Antony is one of those rare artists who, while not unprecedented, still emerges as singular. His is an an arresting vibrato and his presence is gender-anxious and confrontational in its vulnerability. His fey yet firm poise is quivering, tension fraught, but never engulfingly overwrought. Menored by Lou Reed, Boy George, Rufus Wainright and Devendra Barnhart, Antony presents a unique spectoral sound of faded, frayed glamour. This his second album I am a Bird Now is a polished gilded productions including a bluesy purr worthy of Nina Simone in "My Lady Story" and "Fistful of Love," with its Muscle Shoals horn blurts-meet-Weimar cabaret swoons via The Velvet Underground's shuffle. As a whole, I Am a Bird Now exhibits a downy affinity for androgynous eccentricity. Rough Trade. 2005.
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