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Antony And The Johnsons - Another World [EP]
| Lostatsea |
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Admittedly, I waited a while to give this album by Antony and the Johnsons even the slightest listen, not wanting to be unduly influenced amidst the media buzz swirling around it. I wasn't really expecting anything out of the ordinary, but as the already-converted might imagine, this album totally caught me off guard when I finally did give it a chance. So much so that I didn't realize that I had been guarding myself against it, until my guard had been let down. Even in it's first moments, I Am A Bird Now exuded an arrestingly haunting mystique and the starkly naked and fragile emotions emerging from Antony's vocals stopped me dead in my tracks and left me completely slack jawed and in awe of something much more than ordinary....full text |
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| Nowtoronto |
| This EP, a teaser of what to expect from the full-length album scheduled for January, sees the vocalist reining in some of his more histrionic tendencies while expanding his palette of influences and sounds. Some fans are going to miss the melodramatic over-the-top crescendos of his earlier material, but if they have the patience they’ll realize that this restraint serves him well, putting the emphasis on the songs rather than his otherworldly warble and heart-wrenching wailing....full text |
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| Guardian |
| To the ranks of eco warriors now add the looming figure of Antony Hegarty, last heard on I Am a Bird Now, OMM's album of the year in 2005, whose full sequel follows next year. That is, if the polar ice caps haven't melted by then and done for us all. If we are going to go, the magnificently mournful title track of this EP may as well be the soundtrack....full text |
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