Another World

by Antony and the Johnsons

Overview

The 2005 Mercury Award-winning I Am a Bird Now launched avant-garde/cabaret/chamber pop queen Anohni into the near mainstream with its lush and heavily orchestrated outsider torch songs. Three years later, fresh from projects with Bjoerk, Todd Haynes, and Charles Atlas, Antony and the Johnsons return with Another World, a five-song teaser EP for the group's forthcoming Crying Light album. As usual, Anohni's gorgeous, mournful voice is the centerpiece, especially on the EP's namesake, a sparse, piano-led ballad that finds the singer spilling a list of her "favorite things" that she'll regret not being able to take with her into the next life. From there it's a typical "kitchen sink" EP, stocked with enough stabs at bawdy blue rave-ups ("Shake That Devil"), oddball narratives ("Hope Mountain"), and plaintive reveries ("Crackagen" and "Sing for Me") to tide fans over until the headliner arrives. ~ James Christopher Monger

Product Details

Release Date:	10/07/2008
Label:	Secretly Canadian
UPC:	0656605019321
Rank:	150221

Tracks

1. Another World
2. Crackagen
3. Shake That Devil
4. Sing For Me
5. Hope Mountain

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Antony and the Johnsons   Primary Artist
Jeff Langston   Guitar (Bass),Bass (Electric)
Leise Anschuetz   Horn
Nico Muhly   Conductor
Danielle Farina   Strings
Rob Moose   Strings,Guitar (Acoustic),Vocals (Background)
Hiroko Taguchi   Strings
Greg Cohen   Bass (Electric)
Julia Kent   Strings
Antoine Silverman   Strings
Tim Albright   Horn
Doug Wieselman   Clarinet,Saxophone
Anja Wood   Strings
Parker Kindred   Drums
Chad Yarbough   Horn
Lisa Albrecht   Horn,Horn
Try Rinker II   Strings
Sara Hewitt-Roth   Strings
Susan Perelman   Strings
Anohni   Piano,Vocals,Recorder,Harmonium
Maxim Moston   Strings

Technical Credits

Anohni   Audio Production,Arranger,Composer,Producer,Art Direction,Illustrations
Maxim Moston   Horn Arrangements,String Arrangements,Session Director
Nico Muhly   Horn Arrangements,String Arrangements
Stewart Lerman   Engineer
Bryce Goggin   Mixing,Audio Engineer
Doug Henderson   Mastering,Remastering
William Wittman   Engineer
Keith Gary   Engineer
Alex Nizich   Engineer
Shaun MacDonald   Art Assistant
Daniel Murphy   Art Assistant
Don Felix Cervantes   Portraits
Margaret McNelis   Script
Pierre Olivier Deschamps   Portraits