- Record Label: Secretly Canadian / Rough Trade
- Release Date: Feb 1, 2005
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Universal acclaim- based on 271 Ratings
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Positive: 229 out of 271
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Mixed: 12 out of 271
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Negative: 30 out of 271
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SteveRApr 23, 2007What's not To Like? this is a haunting and utterly beautiful masterpiece, nothing less. no one else has done this, ever, and this was THE album of 2005, no doubt.
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tinoApr 27, 2007to feel to know to infuse to perceive to resonate in the god-given voice of mozart stuck in [that] "middle place between light and nowhere" is to beathe, grieve and love robustly ethereal ANTONY may love always overflow your painful heart
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LolaNov 2, 2005I woke up to my radio alarm with Antony singing on NPR. I burst into tears. It's so beautiful. And I'm a jaded old broad. Passed him around and everybody loves him. My friend played him to her mother on her deathbed and then she died, hearing Antony as her last sounds on earth. That seems right to me.
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RickySNov 4, 2005
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BobLNov 7, 2005Who said, "Popularity breeds contempt?" The backlash to this is disheartening. What a fantastic record this is.
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yoridOct 21, 2005ayone that doesnt like this album should just shut their mouths and head over to walmart where they can purchase ashleigh simpson's album and stay in their microscopic universe of music.have a great day.....lol
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JoeMcDec 15, 2005Heartbreaking
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SWMDec 21, 2005Unspeakably beautiful and impossibly cathartic and pure. While albums of musical sophistication are a great thing, this album is one of emotional sophistication, to a degree that sometimes seems too mature and trasncedental to really understand. Easily one of the best albums of the year.
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TerryTickleDec 2, 2005
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HunterHDec 26, 2005His voice warbles like that of Etta James or Billie Holiday; the opening track, "Hope There's Someone," melodically drops your heart thirty feet off a pier into a dark ocean of despair.
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AdrianCFeb 13, 2005Majestic. Gorgeous. Lyrical. Moving. Oh my God. Great songwriting. Great voice. Torch songs that will stir you like nothing in recent times.
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ChaqellaZ.Feb 28, 2005A musical equivalent to half a bottle of vodka and a handful of pain pills, this album is sure to entrance all that listen to it.
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CharlotteCMar 15, 2005This album is brillaint, it might not be that amazing when you first listen to it, but once you re-listen to it, it touches the heart and soul... It is truely amazing, definitely worth buying in my eyes.
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claraeMar 19, 2005this album had a visceral effect on me. i knew it was going to be good, but it surpassed my expectations. cathartic, intimate, vibrant, sorrowful, hopeful... this string of adjectives seems redundant though. go buy it. & if you dont like it the first time, play it again. and if you still dont like it then i dunno. check your pulse.
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ArethusaMar 22, 2005I absolutely adore this album. The lyrics and the music would sound saccharine and overly dramatic with anyone else except Antony, whose voice really is the leading instrument in this band. I've just discovered them with this album and I can't get enough. I think it's one of those polarising records that you'll either love or won't.
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PaulSApr 23, 2005Very Good but not Excellent as first album )
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JohnnyK.May 13, 2005
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TiagoRMay 19, 2005Probably the best album of 2005!!! 5 stars!!!
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scepticJun 17, 2005Best album of 2005. Stunning. Emotional. Powerful. Quote: Matthew W "i could without a doubt sing the same way.". Well do it then. Or shut up. And next time, listen to the album yourself instead of playing it to your mother-brother.
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ShawnJun 19, 2005A stunningly beautiful masterpiece that manages to top Antony's also-brilliant debut.
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mattaJun 21, 2005Really beautiful music and Antony really does have an incredible voice but after repeated listens I realize that the album is a little one-note and even a little repititious at times. Still, a fantastic and original sound.
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BillHJun 27, 2005
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ThomasNJul 25, 2005Prettymuch every song is destined to be on a movie soundtrack someday.
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drewtSep 23, 2005absultely the most stunningly touching album released this year. i cannot reccomend it highly enough.
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rogerkFeb 19, 2006one of the only cd's that i never get tiered of listing too
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KyleKMar 22, 2006Probably the most cohesive and moving album of the year.
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BrendanNJun 11, 2006Challenging, emotional, beautiful, haunting, and just th slightest bit disturbing, I Am A Bird Now will make you shed a tear, quiver in fear, and ultimately cheer.
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ChristianBJul 28, 2006The most beautiful voice I've ever heard. Live even better.
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NavestKNov 29, 2005Best Of The Year
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DaveBDec 11, 2005This is as fragile, affirming, exquisite and incredibly sublime album you will ever hear. Hope There's Someone reduces human fear to its rawest elements and still makes it sound like something you want to listen to. Not since The Cure's Disintegration has it been this cool to be screwed up.
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TCDec 22, 2005Stunning, haunting and not for over analysis ;) one of the best of 05. Long live Antony....
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SimonBDec 27, 2005The most remarkable album I've heard since (the very different) Grace, by Jeff Buckley...and time will prove this to be every bit as much a classic as that one is now seen to be. Haunting and hurt, but ultimately uplifting.
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tqDec 31, 2005This album is heartbreaking and stunningly gorgeous. But don't listen to those who fault it for bad reasons or defend it for reasons just as closeminded and immature (Michael B, you are extremely guilty here).
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MeyaC.Dec 31, 2005I've only heard a few songs on this album, but his voice is so haunting. It's beautiful, exquisite and entirely different. Everything else, like the lyrics and the arrangements just make this record so much better. Though I'm usually a more hard rock person, Antony and the Johnsons just converted me.
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Oct 10, 2010This album is simply one of the most beautiful listens I have had in quite some time. Antony's voice is uniquely breath-taking, and the lyrical content is both raw and deeply meaningful. Just wonderful!
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Apr 26, 2013I can only think of one adjective to describe this album, 'beautiful', His voice is stunning, I saw him in London about 5 years ago and WOW.
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Jan 9, 2015
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Jun 16, 2018The most beautiful album that I've heard in my whole life . So deep untouchable
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Dec 2, 2021
Awards & Rankings
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Haunting and affecting.
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For what it lacks in consistency, I Am A Bird Now gains in being, even at its most tedious of moments, an interesting and thematically compelling listen.
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Entertainment WeeklyIt could have been mawkish, but the sentiments--and Antony's trembling falsetto--are so honest, you love it despite your jaded self. [4 Feb 2005, p.133]