- 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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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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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.