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- Summary: With their fourth album, Antony Hegarty and the rest of his New York City band infuse atmospheric intonations, innovation, and heartfelt emotion into their experimental music.
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- Record Label: Secretly Canadian
- Genre(s): Vocal, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Art Rock, Chamber Pop, Cabaret
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Thank You for Your Love | |
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Ooh, thank you for your love Thank you for your love When all is falling in the seizure of pain Ooh, thank you for your love Thank you for your... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 25 out of 28
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Mixed: 3 out of 28
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Negative: 0 out of 28
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Again and again, Antony gestures toward a light: a crying light, a swanlight, a luminous impossibility that beckons, ultimately serving only to illuminate the sadness of this world.
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Swanlights, the fourth full-length by Antony and the Johnsons, reveals that 2009's The Crying Light was a stepping stone that furthered his sophistication as a songwriter, arranger, and singer.
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Q MagazineHe'll always be too mannered for mainstream acceptance, but there's unarguable brilliance here. [Nov 2010, p.105]
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Oct 27, 2010The styles that parade their way onto Swanlights would probably be the most noticeably diverse change from what happened on previous albums.
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Dec 23, 2010He captures the otherworldly more often than not. Occasionally, though, the songs overreach or miss some central point.
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Oct 27, 2010Swanlights is less straightforward than his other records and more operatic. It's still astonishingly beautiful.
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The fourth Antony and the Johnsons album is more diverse and positive than 2008's The Crying Light, with familiar concerns of death and alienation broadening into family, human bonds, and the joys of love.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 4
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Mixed: 0 out of 4
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Negative: 1 out of 4
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