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Antony and the Johnsons

Antony And The Johnsons

Alternative & Indie - Released May 1, 2000 | Secretly Canadian

Antony & the Johnsons have put together an elaborate assortment of artsy, sweet, and odd songs on their debut album. Antony (now Anohni)'s voice is a stunning musical instrument, sounding as masculine as it does feminine. Occasionally, she pulls out all the stops and affects a successful, soaring vocal style. The atmosphere of the album is dark yet somehow uplifting. The music, mostly slow, quiet jazz, played on a piano, harp, cello, flute, clarinets, saxophone, violins, and drums (in addition to some guitar work) occasionally matches Anohni's bombastic vocals. Song titles like "Cripple and the Starfish," "Hitler in My Heart," and "The Atrocities" give an idea of the tone. "Hitler in My Heart" sees Anohni searching for a "piece of kindness" but finding Hitler in her heart, before relating that "from the corpses, flowers grow." No matter what those lyrics suggest, the song itself begins as a playful, spooky art experiment before revealing itself to be a touching, introspective ballad. "Divine," an ode to the late drag queen and actor, is less amusing than one would think; somehow Anohni makes lyrics like "I hold your big fat heart in my hands" and "I'll swallow sh*t" respectful. There's not a dull moment to be found here, and "Blue Angel" closes the album in the only way possible, with wails and laments of "I'm on fire." Judging by the artwork and photographs included in the liner notes, and press reviews of live performances, there's a great deal of sexual ambiguity at work in the band's dynamics. Perhaps this same ambiguity is the driving force of the band's art. Whether that's the case or not, the band and the singer have mastered their sonic attack and created an extremely compelling debut album. © Tim DiGravina /TiVo
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Knockin' On Heaven's Door

Antony And The Johnsons

Alternative & Indie - Released April 15, 2019 | Secretly Canadian

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I Am A Bird Now

Antony And The Johnsons

Alternative & Indie - Released February 1, 2005 | Secretly Canadian

Antony and the Johnsons' second full-length recording, the haunting and affecting I Am a Bird Now, is a far more intimate affair than their debut. Antony's bluesy parlor room cadence is more upfront here, resulting in a listening experience that's both exhilarating and disquieting. "Hope There's Someone" is a somber opener, and its plea for companionship, augmented by a sparse piano/vocal arrangement that rises into the air by song's end in a swirl of multi-tracked harmonies, is ultimately uplifting. This formula is applied to much of the record and never ceases to elicit honest emotion from either Antony or his numerous guests. Rufus Wainwright takes the lead on "What Can I Do?," a languid meditation on death that conjures up images of rainy streets, lonely lampposts, and cigar smoke -- it's brief (under two minutes) but alluring like the cover of a Raymond Chandler novel. Boy George joins Antony for a duet on the soulful and empowering "You Are My Sister," Devendra Banhart lends his warbly tenor to the lush "Spiraling," and Lou Reed plays noodly guitar and recites an anonymous poem on the mischievous "Fistful of Love." It's a testament to Antony's skill as a writer and arranger that these guest appearances are completely devoid of pretense, and while each artist is reverent to the source material, it's still Antony's show, as the most powerful moments on I Am a Bird Now are his.© James Christopher Monger /TiVo
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Turning

Antony And The Johnsons

Alternative & Indie - Released January 8, 2014 | Secretly Canadian

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The Lake

Antony And The Johnsons

Alternative & Indie - Released November 2, 2004 | Secretly Canadian

Antony and the Johnsons offer up a snapshot of their upcoming full-length I Am a Bird Now, to be released in 2005, with the three-track EP The Lake. Antony's musical adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's poem is a chilling piano/cello/guitar-accompanied lament that echoes the work of fellow David Tibet discovery and frequent collaborator Baby Dee. Similar ground is covered on "The Horror Has Gone," a less gloomy take on the artist's signature brand of pop-cabaret given extra warmth from a lush full-band arrangement. "Fistful of Love," featuring a spoken word intro and typically awful guitar solo from Lou Reed, is the EP's centerpiece. The only track to appear on the forthcoming LP, it builds on the promise of the group's delicious 1997 debut, reveling in its chamber pop debauchery and revealing Antony as one of the most unique and forward-thinking voices in modern music. © James Christopher Monger /TiVo
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You Are My Sister

Antony And The Johnsons

Alternative & Indie - Released October 25, 2005 | Secretly Canadian

Along with its evocative, melancholy title track, taken from Antony & the Johnsons' lauded 2005 record, I AM A BIRD NOW (which won the prestigious Mercury Prize in the UK), YOU ARE MY SISTER also presents three non-album tracks. As with most of Antony's compositions, this trio of songs is driven by the flamboyant cross-dressing performer's unmistakably delicate yet soulful voice and his signature spare, piano-driven arrangements. While "Poorest Ear" is an aching lament, "Forest of Love" celebrates the serenity of nature, and "Paddy's Gone" mourns a lost lover. These songs are kindred spirits with the tracks on I AM A BIRD NOW, making this EP a lovely extension of that acclaimed album. © TiVo
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Hope There's Someone

Antony And The Johnsons

Alternative & Indie - Released May 16, 2005 | Secretly Canadian

Antony and the Johnsons add another EP to their growing chamber pop/cabaret canon with Hope There's Someone. Like its predecessor, the pre-I Am a Bird Now EP The Lake, there are two new tracks that hold their own against anything off of IAABN and the group's lush self-titled debut. Antony's lonely Jeff Buckley-meets-Boy George delivery and sparse instrumentation help keep "Frankenstein" and "Just One Star" at the emotionally naked level that fans have come to expect, while director Glen Fogel's achingly lush video for the winsome title track puts the object of "Hope There's Someone"'s desperation into equally raw -- yet visually arresting -- context.© James Christopher Monger /TiVo
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The Songs of Robert Wyatt and Antony & the Johnsons, Live from the Union Chapel

The Unthanks

Folk/Americana - Released November 28, 2011 | Rough Trade

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Stop Making Sense (Deluxe Edition)

Talking Heads

Pop - Released January 1, 1984 | Rhino - Warner Records

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Jonathan Demme's creative direction and this group's brilliance make for an unusual live performance event. Starting solo with David Byrne, each song brings another band member to the stage until the full band kicks in. With Bernie Worrell on keyboards and a strong hit-filled set from the Speaking in Tongues tour, this is definitely worth checking out.© Scott Bultman /TiVo
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Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

Rock - Released October 22, 1969 | Atlantic Records

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Led Zeppelin II (HD Remastered Deluxe Edition)

Led Zeppelin

Rock - Released October 22, 1969 | Atlantic Records

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More Songs About Buildings and Food

Talking Heads

Pop - Released July 14, 1978 | Rhino - Warner Records

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Roadhouses & Automobiles

Chris Jones

Pop - Released January 1, 2003 | Stockfisch Records

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Stop Making Sense (Special New Edition)

Talking Heads

Punk / New Wave - Released October 1, 1984 | Warner Records

While there's no debating the importance of Jonathan Demme's classic film record of Talking Heads' 1983 tour, the soundtrack released in support of it is a thornier matter. Since its release, purists have found Stop Making Sense slickly mixed and, worse yet, incomprehensive. The nine tracks included jumble and truncate the natural progression of frontman David Byrne's meticulously arranged stage show. Cries for a double-album treatment -- à la 1982's live opus The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads -- were sounded almost immediately; more enterprising fans merely dubbed the VHS release of the film onto cassette tape. So, until a 1999 "special edition" cured the 1984 release's ills, fans had to make do with the Stop Making Sense they were given -- which is, by any account, an exemplary snapshot of a band at the height of its powers. Even with some of his more memorable tics edited out, Byrne is in fine voice here: Never before had he sounded warmer or more approachable, as evidenced by his soaring rendition of "Once in a Lifetime." Though almost half the album focuses on Speaking in Tongues material, the band makes room for one of Byrne's Catherine Wheel tunes (the hard-driving, elliptical "What a Day That Was") as well as up-tempo versions of "Pyscho Killer" and "Take Me to the River." If anything, Stop Making Sense's emphasis on keyboards and rhythm is its greatest asset as well as its biggest failing: Knob-tweakers Chris Frantz and Jerry Harrison play up their parts at the expense of the treblier aspects of the performance, and fans would have to wait almost 15 years for reparations. Still, for a generation that may have missed the band's seminal '70s work, Stop Making Sense proves to be an excellent primer.© Michael Hastings /TiVo
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There's a Riot Goin' On

Sly & The Family Stone

Funk - Released January 1, 1971 | Epic - Legacy

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The Complete BBC Sessions

Led Zeppelin

Rock - Released September 16, 2016 | Rhino Atlantic

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Songbook

Chris Cornell

Rock - Released January 1, 2011 | A&M

After spending over a decade avoiding his past, Chris Cornell reconnected with it in a big way during 2010. First, he reunited with Soundgarden, their tour so successful it spilled over into a studio collaboration interrupted by Cornell launching an acoustic tour where he revisited his catalog, quite definitively tying his solo career and time with Audioslave to Soundgarden. Songbook is a live album culled from this tour and has Cornell sampling from all phases of his career, often spinning harder-rocking songs into moody reflective territory. Unlike his solo debut, Euphoria Morning, this never sounds solipsistic; Cornell is engaged, looking outward to the audience, giving subtly forceful performances that often rescue overlooked tunes -- including selections from his electronica makeover Scream -- and freshen up familiar songs, including covers of Led Zeppelin’s “Thank You” and John Lennon’s “Imagine.” He sounds at peace with his past and comfortable with his present, and that casual assurance makes Songbook his best solo offering to date.© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Bachman-Turner Overdrive

Bachman-Turner Overdrive

Rock - Released May 1, 1973 | Mercury Records

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Bachman-Turner Overdrive's Four Wheel Drive album is most often overlooked, mainly because all of the attention was focused on the singable "na na na naa"'s of one of B.T.O.'s biggest hits in "Hey You." But the rest of the album is made up of the band's lunch-pail rock & roll sound, combining ample amounts of factory-made blues to street-dirty guitar rock. Although it can't really hold a candle to Not Fragile, B.T.O.'s best album, there's still a fair amount of well-played radio rock to hold Four Wheel Drive up. "Hey You" gave B.T.O. their second last Top 40 hit, peaking at number 21 and reaching number five in Canada, but tracks like "Flat Broke Love," "She's Keeping Time," and "Don't Let the Blues Get You Down" are attractive arena rock efforts with both Bachman's Randy and Robbie sounding like they're still involved wholeheartedly. "Lowland Fling" and "Quick Change Artist" may be the album's weakest attempts, but, on a grander scale, Four Wheel Drive eventually became the last solid endeavor by the group. Tim Bachman left after Bachman-Turner Overdrive II to try his luck at producing, and, in 1977, Randy Bachman went off to do some solo work, leading up to his formation of the band Ironhorse. B.T.O. fell apart after this, and the albums that followed contained little if any of their accustomed, belt-driven rock & roll. Best of all, Four Wheel Drive doesn't offer up any changes or surprises, and an expected eight tracks of guitar-based rock is truly what you get. © Mike DeGagne /TiVo
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Blue Eye Samurai (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series)

Amie Doherty

Film Soundtracks - Released October 27, 2023 | Netflix Music

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Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series)

Kris Bowers

Film Soundtracks - Released May 4, 2023 | Masterworks

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