| Antony And The Johnsons / Antony And The Johnsons |
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| Album: | Antony And The Johnsons | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Antony And The Johnsons | Added: | 08/2004 | |
| Label: | Secretly Canadian | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2004-12-05 | Pull Date: | 2005-02-06 |
| Week Ending: | 2 Jan | 12 Dec |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | May 05, 2009: | Living Souls [for A] Twilight | 4. | Dec 31, 2004: | Hail To The Past, Move Towards The Future Atrocities | |
| 2. | Dec 16, 2005: | vampires dont bite other vampires Atrocities | 5. | Dec 08, 2004: | Dross Rapture | |
| 3. | Feb 25, 2005: | Midnight Meanderings Cripple and the Starfish | ||||
| Album Review |
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| Ragnar of Ravensfjord Reviewed 2004-11-02 | ||
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Antony (not Anthony) & The Johnsons sound could best described as torchsongs that deal with isolation, androgony & sadness. Antony’s voice is a very stunning mix of Bryan Ferry, Chet Baker and maybe even Jimmy Sommerville (Bronski Beat, Communards). The songs are a like like a real slow Roxy Music mixed with very sad kinda romantic yet melancholic cabret/torch songs. They’ve done a lot of interesting collaborations with all sorts of people including Boy George, Current 93, David Lynch & Angelo Balmenetti. Antony even has local roots "I went to a magnet school for the performing arts in San Jose... the armpit of Silicon Valley. It was probably the only high school in the area where I wouldn't have been duct-taped to a tree and spat on. I was also the lead singer and songwriter for a death rock band." (Index magazine interview with Antony & Lou Reed) ((((1)))) Sounds a bit like Chet Baker mixed with Roxy Music. Very slow, torch-song like. Very nice & screaming for a David Lynch movie to go with it. (((2)))) Very nice violin and piano and again a lot Bryan Ferry meets Jimmy Sommerville vocal inflections. Strange masocistic lyrics, too. ((((3)))) Uptempo dark, twisted & sarcastic tune with fast piano playing. Sounds like it could be influenced by the book “Malador” but with a 20th century twist. (((((4))))) Brooding etheral somberness with floating tempo. Great vocals & strings all accompanied with some almost Joy Division -like lyrics ((((5))) Slow ballad with a hint a cabraet blues. Borders on elements of olde tyme spirituals. (((6))) Sparse harp, piano and super torch song elements. Sounds like a club scene that was cut out of “Blue Velvet” ((((7)))) Uptempo with a click-track beat and nice flute & violin accents throughout. (((((8))))) (FCC “and I’ll swallow shit...” 2:01) Fantastic Roxy Music-ish number that’s an ode to the legendary drag actor from every classic John Waters film. Incredible vocal and band performance ((((9)))) Slow, pitter-patter beat with a huge “smoky bar at 3am in Greenwich Village” feeling which opens up to a louder and bigger, fuller sound. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Twilight | 5. | River of Sorrow | |||
| 2. | Cripple and the Starfish | 6. | Rapture | |||
| 3. | Hitler in My Heart | 7. | Deeper than Love | |||
| 4. | Atrocities | 8. | Divine | |||
| 9. | Blue Angel | |||||