The Crying Light

The follow-up to the Mercury winner, dedicated to the butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno and arranged with Nico Muhly.
Antony and the Johnsons, 2009

Released
19 January 2009
Label
Secretly Canadian
Producer
Anohni
Length
39:24

Its cover is Naoya Ikegami's 1977 photograph of Kazuo Ohno, to whom the album is dedicated, and Nico Muhly wrote the arrangements. It went to No. 1 on the Billboard European Top 100 and in Flanders, No. 18 in the UK and No. 65 in the US, with a Metacritic score of 80. Ann Powers of the Los Angeles Times called it the most personal environmentalist statement possible. The band later performed it with the Manchester Camerata at the 2009 Manchester International Festival.

Track listing

  1. Her Eyes Are Underneath the Ground4:24
  2. Epilepsy Is Dancing2:42
  3. One Dove5:34
  4. Kiss My Name2:48
  5. The Crying Light3:18
  6. Another World4:00
  7. Daylight and the Sun6:21
  8. Aeon4:35
  9. Dust and Water2:50
  10. Everglade2:58

More from Antony and the Johnsons

I Am a Bird Now (2005), I'm Not There: Original Soundtrack (2007), My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross (2023)

Sources

  1. The Crying Light, Wikipedia
  2. Antony and the Johnsons, Wikipedia