Label: Rough Trade / Beggars Group
VÖ: 08.10.2010
After Antony & The Johnsons renounced on her last album, The Crying Light "of reality and great concepts have turned a proud new work "Swanlights" less universal ambitions.
The first track "Everything Is New" is simultaneously vague promise and clear statement. Antony Hegarty always repeated the three words, first in disbelief, then with solid expectant voice, while in the background, a symphony orchestra, a wall of sound, then tune set up and dismantle. In general many of the songs are accompanied by orchestral arrangements - very subtle: Sometimes it sounds as if you have recorded the voice of the instruments before the concert and put under the vocals. Then again you can hear the breath at the end of "The Great White Open", everything is close - neither musically nor quoted. Many of the songs from the debut album, Antony & The Johnsons "Sinister Reflections on disappointment and failure to accept-to-be - the first single" Thank You For Your Love "is almost a Song of Songs to love and be loved, very subjective, so simple. His voice jumps, breaks and sinks between trumpets.
This pulls in relation to the three previous works clearly positive mood, almost through the entire album, an in-the-rest as a result of catharsis and self-denial. "Ghost! Leave from my heart, "he tells in" Ghost. " This song, recorded with an arrangement by Nico Muhly from the London Symphony Orchestra performs at the proof that pop music may be minimalist and opulent at the same time. That Hegarty's text and his biography to invite to psychologizing, he must not be detrimental. Musically, dominated almost always Hegarty's voice, his stories seem both sincere and authentic that you just do not put him under false pathos can.
"Swanlights" still sounds to Antony & The Johnsons, but exploiting the potential of volume dynamics plus piano plus orchestra even more. Also worth mentioning: the case of "give buffs" that works as one of the few songs on the album with only piano and vocals, Antony occurs even a small step back in order to share with none other than Bjork the microphone. "Everything is new, every sock and every shoe" Hegarty singing a little later on, as always, magnificent closing piece "Christina's Farm". "Swanlights" is exactly that: Hope as an option, not only as a noble desire.
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