Title: I'm a Bird Now Artist: Antony & The Johnsons Label: Rough Trade Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 5050159822324 Genre: Indie Rock/Pop Release Date: 2008-12-01 Number of Discs: 1
Singer/songwriter/pianist Antony is one of those rare artists who, while not unprecedented, still emerges as singular. His is an an arresting vibrato and his presence is gender-anxious and confrontational in it's vulnerability. His fey yet firm poise is quivering, tension fraught, but never engulfing overwrought. Menored by Lou Reed, Boy George, Rufus Wainwrights and Devendra Barnhart, Antony presents a unique spectral sound of faded, frayed glamour. This his second album I am a Bird Now is a polished gilded productions including a bluesy purr worthy of Nina Simone in "My Lady Story" and "Fistful of Love," with it's Muscle Shoals horn blurts-meet-Weimar cabaret swoons via the Velvet Underground's shuffle. As a whole, I Am a Bird Now exhibits a downy affinity for androgynous eccentricity. Rough Trade. 2005.
Tracks: 1.1 Hope There's Someone 1.2 My Lady Story 1.3 For Today I Am a Bouy 1.4 Man Is the Baby 1.5 You Are My Sister 1.6 What Can I Do? 1.7 Fistful of Love 1.8 Spiralling 1.9 Free at Last 1.10 Bird Guhl
