My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross

The first album as Anohni and the Johnsons, with Marsha P. Johnson on the cover and the band's best reviews.
Antony and the Johnsons, 2023

Released
7 July 2023
Label
Secretly Canadian / Rough Trade
Producer
Jimmy Hogarth and Anohni
Length
41:19

Made with a new group of players including Jimmy Hogarth, Leo Abrahams, Chris Vatalaro and Sam Dixon, it carries Alvin Baltrop's portrait of Marsha P. Johnson on the cover. Pitchfork gave it 8.7, hearing a safe place to grieve the destruction of the planet, and NME's Patrick Clarke found it the most accessible thing she had made. Its Metacritic score is 88, and The New Yorker named it the No. 1 album of 2023.

More from Antony and the Johnsons

I Am a Bird Now (2005), I'm Not There: Original Soundtrack (2007), The Crying Light (2009)

Sources

  1. My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross, Wikipedia
  2. Anohni, Wikipedia