Antony is a bird now

Antony, the small bulk of the back of the class to which nobody paid any attention, except when the teacher questioned and met with his odd falsetto. Some however noticed that since Culture Club had released his first album, the small Antony had become frankly bizarre, dressed as a girl is long on Sundays and dreaming in his room ... no wonder the first to greet him was the esotericist David Tibet (Current 93), on his label "Durtro" for a first album which already soared above the others. Today, Antony comes back and it became a bird.
Funny bird anyway, both raven in his evocations of disappointed love, melancholy and death, and by its ability to Phoenix reborn from many small deaths, so many disappointments that can be guessed in the deeply moving its androgynous voice quavering. If soberly piano accompaniment, Antony makes you want to cry and smile at a time. Supported here and there by mysterious or famous Johnsons, by fragile strings, with spindly guitars, Antony rightly invites his childhood idol, the troublemaker fallen Boy George, push amazing vocals on the troubling "You Are My Sister "while Rufus Wainwright, wife this unique universe (both black and white) on the final" What Can I Do? "(A languid meditation on death), that participates in Devendra Banhart" Spiraling "and Lou Reed himself, the" transform "from another time, just recite a poem accompanying himself on guitar (he produced there a solo that once would have scratch pages and pages to the famous Lester Bangs) on the underground hit "Fistful of Love" superb. Despite these amazing guests, Antony retains total control over this magnificent disc, always fair, staggering but never falling. Antony is a bird now: it is balanced on a taut wire ... watch it, listen to it, it will fly well soon!
PS-1: Ep containing two unreleased tracks (+ "Fistful of Love"): "The Lake," an adaptation of a poem by Edgar Allan Poe with a superb accompaniment to the cello and piano, and "The Horror Has Gone ".
PS-2: Antony & The Johnsons have won the prestigious Mercury Prize 2005 for CEET album, beating nominees as Bloc Party, KT Tunstall, Maximo Park ...