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.