Album: Anthony and the Johnsons, Swanlights (Rough Trade)

Andy Gill
Friday 08 October 2010 00:00 BST
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This can be bought as an album, or with a 144-page hardback book of Antony Hegarty's collages - takes its cue from the previous album's "One Dove", extending further the notions of fauna, flux and transformation that have driven Antony's music since I Am A Bird Now.

Here, over gentle arrangements of piano, strings and acoustic guitar, with the occasional low, throbbing drone or organ groove, he anticipates a reunion with his family upon death ("The Great White Ocean"), imagines himself "dancing neck to neck" with swans ("Swanlights"), and exults in a pantheistic appreciation of the first flush of love ("Christina's Farm"), while two songs co-written with Nico Muhly find him engaging in a dance of union with the natural world ("Salt Silver Oxygen").

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