Antony And The Johnsons / Swanlights
Album: Swanlights   Collection:General
Artist:Antony And The Johnsons   Added:Oct 2010
Label:Secretly Canadian  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2011-01-09 Pull Date: 2011-03-13
Week Ending: Feb 6 Jan 23 Jan 16
Airplays: 1 2 3

Recent Airplay
1. Feb 04, 2011: No Waves In Paris
I'm In Love
4. Jan 15, 2011: Music Casserole
Christina's Farm
2. Jan 20, 2011: Treeswinger Radio
Flétta
5. Jan 14, 2011: taking the a-files to the pound
Salt Silver Oxygen
3. Jan 18, 2011: meow
Flétta
6. Jan 13, 2011: Daydream Disaster
Thank You For Your Love

Album Review
Rasmus Rygaard
Reviewed 2010-12-28
The range is a bit broader than your typical A&TJ release. Still, there’s plenty of heart-warming melancholy and vocal extravaganza. Björk is adding some extra indie cred on track 9, but apart from that it’s just Antony doing his thing with very simple instrumentation. Beautiful.

FCC: Clean
Try: 10, 8, 11, 3

1) 4:32 Fragile opener, half spoken lyrics following the piano line
2) 5:00 Continuing from track 1, slow, Antony’s voice and an acoustic guitar. Incredibly subtle.
3) 3:08 * Piano arpeggios and strings, theatrical vocals and building tension.
4) 3:52 Bouncy, playful vibe. Strange flapping noise in the background.
5) 0:36 Piano/string interlude
6) 6:08 Drone-like guitars in the background. Abstract, free-form, picks up towards the end
7) 3:18 Slow, piano-driven. Deeper vocals.
8) 4:14 * Drums! Still slow, builds to a (relatively) rocking climax with horns and nice backup vocals.
9) 4:24 Piano-driven duet with Björk. As dramatic and weird as you would expect from the combination of the two. Changes tempo.
10) 3:52 ** Falsetto vocals, classical instrumentation with horns for everybody. Chamber pop at its finest!
11) 7:22 * Simple piano ballad. Heart-piercing and oh so melancholic.

Track Listing
1. Everything Is New   7. The Spirit Was Gone
2. The Great White Ocean   8. Thank You For Your Love
3. Ghost   9. Flétta
4. I'm In Love   10. Salt Silver Oxygen
5. Violetta   11. Christina's Farm
6. Swanlights   .