British-born, New York-based ANOHNI, “one of our generation’s greatest protest singers, or protest songwriters” (NPR’s All Songs Considered), presents My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross, the new album from ANOHNI and the Johnsons’ out now on Rough Trade / Remote Control. My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross expresses a world view by shape-shifting through a broad range of subject matter. Through a personal lens, ANOHNI addresses loss of loved ones, inequality, alienation, acceptance, cruelty, ecocide, devastation wrought by...
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ANOHNI announces My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross, a new album by ANOHNI and the Johnsons, out July 7th on Remote Control Records, and presents its lead single and video, ‘It Must Change.’ The British-born, New York- based ANOHNI describes the creative process for My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross, her first album since 2016’s much-lauded HOPELESSNESS, as painstaking, yet also inspired, joyful, and intimate, a renewal and a renaming of her response to the world as she sees it. Pre-Order / Pre-Save My...
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ANOHNI releases Paradise, the companion EP to last year’s HOPELESSNESS. In collaboration with Oneohtrix Point Never and Hudson Mohawke, on Paradise, ANOHNI seeks to support activist conversations and disrupt assumptions about popular music through the collision of electronic sound and highly politicised lyrics. Paradise includes new songs as well as material recently debuted live. On the title track, ‘Paradise,’ ANOHNI voices ecstatic alienation, describing a dystopian life filled with horror, awe, comfort...
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ANOHNI will release PARADISE, the companion EP to last year’s HOPELESSNESS, on March 17th via Rough Trade / Remote Control Records. A collaboration with Oneohtrix Point Never and Hudson Mohawke, the PARADISE EP seeks to support activist conversations and disrupt assumptions about popular music through the collision of electronic sound and highly politicised lyrics. ANOHNI presents the video for the invigorating title track, ‘Paradise’, directed by Colin Whitakerand featuring visual artist and model Eliza Douglas as an avatar...
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ANOHNI will release PARADISE, the companion EP to last year’s HOPELESSNESS, one of the most critically acclaimed and discussed albums of 2016, on Friday 17 March via Rough Trade Records / Remote Control. In collaboration with Oneohtrix Point Never and Hudson Mohawke, on PARADISE, ANOHNI seeks to support activist conversations and disrupt assumptions about popular music through the collision of electronic sound and highly politicized lyrics. PARADISE includes new songs as well as material recently debuted live. On the title track, ‘Paradise,’ Anohni voices ecstatic...
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In no particular order… Steve Spike Fuck – Smackwave EP Weyes Blood – Front Row Seat To Earth Lost Animal – You Yang Frightnrs – Nothing More To Say Christine & The Queens – Chaleur humaine Khryangbin – The Universe Smiles Upon You Black Mountain – IV Car Seat Headrest – Teens Of Denial Liminanas – Malamore Kikagaku Moyo – House In The Tall Grass Suuns – Hold/Still Angel Olsen – My...
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Leading into the end of the year, ANOHNI shares a video for her newest album’s title track. ‘HOPELESSNESS’ is a song that demonstrates how a cry of despair can transform into a call for re-engagement doubled and tripled in a mix whose rhythms recall South African freedom songs, it deconstructs the process of uplift arising from the ashes of grief. Watch the new visual below. “I am a human, a warm-blooded creature. I love...
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ANOHNI, lead singer of Antony and the Johnsons, released HOPELESSNESS earlier this year via Rough Trade / Remote Control Records. Supported by astounding performances in select cities across the globe, the album and its lead singles, ‘Drone Bomb Me‘ and ‘4 Degrees‘, garnered heaps of fervent praise across the board. Additionally, the album was nominated for a Mercury Prize nomination. Today, ANOHNI reveals another side of HOPELESSNESS with the video for ‘I Don’t Love You Anymore‘, a song that powerfully exemplifies how “At times,...
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ANOHNI shares new video for ‘Crisis’ starring Storm Lever, watch it below. The track is taken from Mercury Prize nominated album HOPELESSNESS out now via Rough Trade / Remote Control Records. ‘Crisis’ is ANOHNI’s version of America’s un-issued Chilcot report. The lyrics of of this song inventory some of the ways in which the U.S. has exacerbated and helped to provoke the current global ‘Crisis’. “De-escalation cannot occur until we truly account for what the United States...
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