Antony And The Johnsons - 'Cut The World'

ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS
Cut The World

Rough Trade/Secretly Canadian, 2012

• Favorites:

  "Swanlights," "Kiss My Name"

• flavors:

  Truffle Oil, Snowflakes

RATING:

TRACK LIST:

• Cut The World
• Future Feminism
• Cripple And The Starfish
• You Are My Sister
• Swanlights
• Epilepsy Is Dancing
• Another World
• Kiss My Name
• I Fell In Love With A Dead Boy
• The Rapture
• The Crying Light
• 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.