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- Record Label: Secretly Canadian
- Release Date: Jan 20, 2009
- Summary: The third album for the Antony Hegarty-led band features music arrangements by Nico Muhly.
- Record Label: Secretly Canadian
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Pop
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Top Track
| Epilepsy Is Dancing | |
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| Epilepsy is dancing She's the Christ now departing And I'm finding my rhythm As I twist in the snow The metal burned in me Down the brain of my... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 30 out of 35
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Mixed: 5 out of 35
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Negative: 0 out of 35
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If you let it work its magic, it will--no matter how unfashionable or cloying it may seem at a glance. It’s music to get absorbed by.
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Whatever 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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On The Crying Light, Antony acts as a conduit between popular music and the avant-garde, and if that’s not a mark of greatness, what is?
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Hegarty sounds more in control of his remarkable voice than ever before, and this new restraint suits him. When you’ve got this much emotive power at your fingertips, it’s wise to reel it in a bit.
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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's performances are always classy as well as unequivocally odd.
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The Crying Light is a record that effectively changes Antony’s character and makes him a difficult entity to relate to, forcing him more into the realm of animatronics than human existence.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 16
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Mixed: 2 out of 16
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Negative: 2 out of 16
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FabioDMar 6, 2009Simply magic, wonderful.
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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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Jul 16, 2011
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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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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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JaniceMar 4, 2009
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