Swanlights, by ANOHNI

Swanlights

by ANOHNI

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1.	Everything Is New 04:32	buy track
2.	The Great White Ocean 04:59	buy track
3.	Ghost 03:08	buy track
4.	I'm In Love 03:52	buy track
5.	Violetta 00:36	buy track
6.	Swanlights 06:07	buy track
7.	The Spirit Was Gone 03:17	buy track
8.	Thank You For Your Love 04:14	buy track
9.	Flétta 04:23	buy track
10.	Salt Silver Oxygen 03:52	buy track
11.	Christina's Farm 07:23	buy track

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ANOHNI of Antony and the Johnsons released her new album, 'Swanlights', on October 12th 2010 in the US via Secretly Canadian. Abrams Image simultaneously released a special edition of 'Swanlights’ which included the CD inside a 144-page art book containing ANOHNI's paintings, collages, photography and writing. The album only version of 'Swanlights' on Secretly Canadian also included the song Fletta, a duet with Bjork.

On ‘Swanlights’ ANOHNI continues to explore environmental issues and her relationship to the rest of the natural world. While 'I Am a Bird Now' employed simplicity in its vision and 'The Crying Light' austerity, ‘Swanlights’ is more maximal, employing exotic percussive elements, string drones, distorted guitars and shimmering symphonic stages. In the lyris of "Everything is New” ANOHNI asserts that each moment takes its own breath and be reborn. The title track “Swanlights” navigates a primordial and elusive plane, using expanding guitar tones and melodies to evoke a feeling of volatile majesty: “I’m gifted by your grace /It’s the Swanlights on the water / on that shining face". On "Thank You For Your Love", ANOHNI reiterates gratitude for care in a soulful track that suggests an escalation into crisis.

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released October 12, 2010

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Antony and the Johnsons New York, New York

Antony and the Johnsons' breakthrough 2nd album “I Am a Bird Now” won the UK’s prestigious Mercury Prize in 2005, introducing many to the pioneering singer unafraid to explore themes traversing darkness and light, life and death, male and female. Antony’s inimitable voice sparked interest in artists ranging from Bjork to Hercules and Love Affair, resulting in a series of acclaimed collaborations. ... more

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