Album Rating: 3.5

Agreed. The pairing of 0pn production and Antony's voice is the ideal for her that I've always wanted.

Album Rating: 2.5

ANOHNI's voice is as good as ever.



Believe me, I feel the sentiment. As a trans woman living in a conservative background, I get the struggle. But I'm just not all that enticed with the music as of yet. Gotta let it sink in better. I love her past work.

Album Rating: 2.5

And her tracks with Björk are awesome too.

Album Rating: 1.5

I vastly prefer the aesthetic of I Am A Bird Now, her voice benefits much more from starker production.

All this delicious controversy has convinced me to check this out fuk u Arcade

Album Rating: 2.5

I Am A Bird Now rules, agreed. :]

Album Rating: 3.5

Believe me, I feel the sentiment. As a trans woman living in a conservative background, I get the struggle. But I'm just not all that enticed with the music as of yet. Gotta let it sink in better. I love her past work.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

I love I Am a Bird Now as well, but this is awesome too.

And looking at that album, she has always been super direct on how she feels. Hope There's Someone, Fistful of Love, For Today I Am a Boy...

Album Rating: 3.5

All this delicious controversy has convinced me to check this out fuk u Arcade

Album Rating: 2.5

OPN might be great for Anohni, but (for me!) Anohni ain't so great for OPN. Her voice (which I like) drags me out of it. Not feeling the pairing in the same way as both of you.

"Most of Hopelessness attempts to mix politicized sentiment to danceable music and rarely succeeds."

I'm beginning to agree with you.

Long-time fan of Antony and the Johnsons, so I loved this album right away, but I'm liking it less as the lyrics become clearer to me . . . I still like it musically, so as someone else said, maybe I'll try and ignore the lyrics.

Album Rating: 3.5

Antony's lyrics have always been this way. Dude Hitler in my Heart was on her first album ffs. Just because other people feel that way doesn't mean that you have to feel that way all of a sudden.

Album Rating: 3.5

Just because you say you aren't on a moral crusade doesn't retract the grossly insensitive and misappropriated things you've said. You're sputnik's pageant girl.

Album Rating: 1.5

Favourite track is probably Why Did You Separate Me From The Earth. But the blown out drums on the whole album get really grating, I hate them. I don't particularly enjoy the production altogether, actually.

"I'm not saying there's anything wrong with disliking this album that's fine. If people don't like the music they don't like it. But the moral crusade that is being waged on Antony is just inconsistent and offensive and that's the only context I'm talking about that for."

and ppl are entitled to not like the lyrics either, especially when they're so in your face and integral to the music

like, if im not feeling a particular song with patronizing undertones where an american writes as an afghan girl wishing to be drone bombed, delivered with the tact of an elephant in a flower garden with such profound lines as "explode my crystal guts"...then that's just like, my opinion man. it's not a moral crusade at all

Album Rating: 1.5

this thread lul

Album Rating: 3.5

You guys are mad this bangs

Album Rating: 4.5

why did you separate me from the earth is so good. sounds like the best thing the range never produced.

Album Rating: 3.5

I'm not gonna get lectured about music and lyrics by a dude with taste as developed as a high school freshman; and the sentence structures of an over-eager first-year college student.



I never said anything about you being transphobic, I just said it was stupid of you to bring race into the discussion (as opposed to a quality that actually influences Antony's music), and imperialism and all the other dumb, overreaching comments you've made.



You can say bad lyrics all you want, but if you have Drake's newest 1.5 points above this (when that has some of the most vapid lyrics ever put to record, and I'm a big Drake fan), then I can't take anything you say seriously.

Interesting and well written review