Antony has a tear-strained voice that will forever overwhelm anything the rest of his ensemble may do. That’s the nature of vocal-driven music. Even the minor instrumental patters here and there on The Crying Light never actually go beyond setting the stage for the next reappearance of his pained, absurdist melodrama.
Some might complain this is [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘antony & the johnsons’
March 6, 2009
Antony & The Johnsons – The Crying Light
February 25, 2009
Antony & The Johnsons – Live @ Town Hall, February 20, 2009
Many years back I knew a gay Buddhist who lived in the East Village. He was the first person to play Antony & The Johnsons for me, and at the time I had no way to process it. I wasn’t familiar with the whole faux cabaret tradition, the post-Klaus Nomi camp theatrics and all that [...]
