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Antony And The Johnsons - 'Cut The World'

By Andy Lichtenstein
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ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS
Cut The World

Rough Trade/Secretly Canadian, 2012

  • Favorites:

    "Swanlights," "Kiss My Name"

  • flavors:

    Truffle Oil, Snowflakes

 
RATING:
TRACK LIST:
  1. Cut The World
  2. Future Feminism
  3. Cripple And The Starfish
  4. You Are My Sister
  5. Swanlights
  6. Epilepsy Is Dancing
  7. Another World
  8. Kiss My Name
  9. I Fell In Love With A Dead Boy
  10. The Rapture
  11. The Crying Light
  12. Twilight

Antony & The Johnsons' entire career always seems to me like one long attempt to replicate the blue opera-singing alien bit from The Fifth Element. Here, Antony yet again plays perfectly into my conceit by racking up an entire album of covers of his own songs, operatically re-recorded with the Danish national chamber orchestra. Across it, Big Tony Goose Throat creates a tableau of hyper-emotion so vast in scope and scale, you won't want to leave it near any statues of the Virgin Mary in case they start weeping blood. 

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