- Record Label: Secretly Canadian
- Release Date: Jan 20, 2009
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 64 Ratings
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Positive: 50 out of 64
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Mixed: 4 out of 64
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Negative: 10 out of 64
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SPFeb 20, 2009An album of complex, haunting, and lyrical compilations. It's difficult to categorize Antony and his music, but it ignites a symphony of emotions, from exhilaration to anguish. Particular standouts on this album are Aeon, Her Eyes are Underneath the Ground, and Another World.
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ArmenSJan 21, 2009This is a sensational album, one that deserves to be listened to by everyone and anyone who has ever uttered the words I like music.
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FabioD.Jan 21, 2009Simply wonderful.
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FabioDMar 6, 2009Simply magic, wonderful.
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VincentJan 27, 2009
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DylanMFeb 6, 2009This is a beautiful, beautiful album and his voice is spectacular. To call it anything else would be insanity. I didn't know what to expect from this (I hadn't heard any of his other work) and I was completely floored.
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Jul 16, 2011Not as overtly emotional as I Am a Bird Now on first few listens but the nuanced beauty of the arrangements make up for it. As usual. Antony's wondrous voice carries each song and even manages to convey deep emotions to rather elemental topics like mother earth and nature. An amazing listen.
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JeremyFJan 20, 2009The first album by them I actually am getting into. Her Eyes Are Underneath The Ground is one of the most beautiful songs I've heard in the past year.
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JorgeBMar 13, 2009beautiful album from one of the best singers right now. Every song is an experimental trial in his own dramatic style.
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Jan 16, 2014
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May 25, 2013Yes, it's almost unbearably cloying and very eye-roll inducing with its lyrics, but The Crying Light is a very beautiful album to listen and absorb. Plus one of the most emotional male voices in existence.
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Dec 2, 2021Whatever hopes you held in the aftermath of "I Am a Bird Now," they have been exponentially exceeded in poetry, music, and honesty here.
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DirkNMar 5, 2009The voice is an acquired taste because the "he" was formerly a "she" (transsexual)--that is why it make take a bit of getting used to...
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FlemmingFMar 5, 2009why this when you have two sublime and far superior albums before this. it really is rather dull.
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lewisb.Jan 21, 2009Hs voice is more than just and acquired taste... it ruins anything that might have been good about this album.
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JaniceMar 4, 2009Hard as I tried, I couldn't find one good thing about this album. It's full of tedious, boring, uninspired tripe with some of the most annoying male vocals I've heard in years. That awful endless vibrato is just...ugh! Unbelievably overrated.
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Awards & Rankings
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Hegarty wrote and helped to arrange all the songs on The Crying Light, and his writing bears the same pensive sensitivity as his singing on what amounts to a spellbinding album.
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Antony Hegarty's tremulous warble is a strange and marvelous instrument--and for many, an acquired taste. The Crying Light, this diva-dude's third album, spotlights his haunting vocals with few distractions, using piano and low-key orchestral arrangements as foils for him to swoop and shiver over.
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Antony and the Johnsons' third full-length wisely focuses on the frontman's enormous talent, with Nico Muhly's classical arrangements plinking and waltzing but never overpowering.