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Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light

Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light

(3 stars)22 Jan 2009

BAROQUE POP Mr Hegarty returns, with his mesmerising whine and theatrical warble grabbing the back of the neck like frosty fingers. The follow up to the Mercury prize-winning I am a Bird Now explores the spaces between male and female, shelter and…

Kate Nash

Preview 2009 - Albums

8 Jan 2009

The start of ‘09 sees a hip hop war brewing, with new records by some of the genre’s heaviest hitters landing on the streets. First we’ve got to survive January, though, and what more uplifting way than with Bruce Springsteen ’s Working on a Dream?

The trials of Hercules

Hercules & Love Affair - Andy Butler interview

Andy Butler on new album Blue Songs ahead of their gig at Death Disco

3 Mar 2011

Andy Butler is feeling tired and emotional, and he’s blaming his airline for it. ‘I think BA played a trick on us and didn’t turn out the cabin lights the whole transatlantic flight. “No, we just turned them on because we’re serving food,” said the…

Antony and the Johnsons - Swanlights

Antony and the Johnsons - Swanlights

(4 stars)6 Oct 2010

(Rough Trade) As with Antony Hegarty’s three prior albums, Swanlights forages the natural world, yet bears unearthly fruit. It is typically impelled by his dramatic vocals: they scale astral heights; plunge aquatic depths and entwine themselves…

Antony and the Johnsons

Antony and the Johnsons

28 May 2009

An unlikely Mercury Music Prize winner back in 2005, Antony Hegarty and his Johnsons play singularly arresting music that draws on classical and cabaret, making for a strange amalgam of otherworldly experimental sounds and chamber music. Playhouse…

Trade secrets

Trade secrets

27 Nov 2008

Five months before Margaret Thatcher’s landslide 1979 victory, and with Britain’s city streets still retaining the air of a depressed bombsite, highbrow arts programme The South Bank Show appeared to have been hi-jacked by a cell of musical terrorists.

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