The Crying Light
by Antony and the Johnsons
User Score
7.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 64 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 50 out of 64
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 64
  3. Negative: 10 out of 64

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  1. FlemmingF
    Mar 5, 2009
    4
    why this when you have two sublime and far superior albums before this. it really is rather dull.
  2. DirkN
    Mar 5, 2009
    6
    The 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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#81 Best Album of 2009

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Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 35 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 30 out of 35
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 35
  3. Negative: 0 out of 35
  1. Hartford Courant
    80
    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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  2. Rolling Stone
    60
    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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  3. Spin
    70
    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.
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