Antony & The Johnsons - Swanlights
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Artist: Antony & The JohnsonsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2010-10-12
Music Label: Secretly Canadian
Soundtracks:
- Everything Is New
- The Great White Ocean
- Ghost
- I m In Love
- Violetta
- Swanlights
- The Spirit Was Gone
- Thank You For Your Love
- Fl�©tta
- Salt Silver Oxygen
- Christina s Farm
Music reviews of Swanlights
Music Review: A response...
Rating: 5 Stars
I don't usually write too many reviews on here, but I felt I had to respond to the poor overall rating this album seems to have received on here. This album is much too good for that. While I may have overrated it compensation (It's probably more of a 4.25-4.5, this stands up very favorably against The Crying Light and I Am A Bird Now. Antony is a master of evocative and complex melodies and hauntingly gorgeous atmosphere and that has not changed on Swanlights (a title which I absolutely love).
A brief word on Antony's EPs - why does he release them? Another World and Thank You For Your Love were both extremely weak and give very little hope for the coming album. And, as with The Crying Light where "Another World" was the one skippable track, so too here "Thank You For Your Love" is the skippable one. It starts off decently, if not spectacularly, but the ending repetitively shouted cacophony is extremely grating.
However, the rest of the album is wonderful from start to finish. "Salt Silver Oxygen" is almost classical in its complexity, "Fletta" has truly transcendent moments (sadly hampered by a few moments which destroy the unity and mood of the track), and "Salt Silver Oxygen" is beautiful as well. The two truly wonderful tracks, however, are "Ghost" and "Swanlights", both of which I could listen to over and over.
For fans of Antony, this album comes highly recommended, but keep an open mind, and beware the curse of the EP!
Description of Swanlights
Antony and the Johnsons will release their new album, "Swanlights", on October 12th in the US via Secretly Canadian. Abrams Image will simultaneously release a special edition of "Swanlights" which will include the CD inside a 144-page art book containing Antony's paintings, collages, photography and writing. The album only version of "Swanlights" on Secretly Canadian will also include the song "Flétta", a duet with Bjork. The album and book are a continuation of Antony's work exploring environmental issues and his connection to the natural world.Alternative Rock CDs
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