Antony Announces New Album Title, Bjork Video

The December issue of HARP magazine features an interview with Antony Hegarty about the forthcoming third Antony and the Johnsons album. According to a post today on Antony's website, the album is called The Crying Light, and it'll come out on Secretly Canadian in the spring. Exciting!

In the interview, which can be viewed on Antony's site, he said that "a lot" of the 25 songs he tracked for the record "are just piano songs." He also explained the album is "a little more experimental structurally. But some of [the songs] are really normal... I'm hoping to weave things together so it will be a little more of a collage of songs."

Antony expanded the I Am a Bird Now follow-up's previously reported "ghosts and nature" theme to something a little broader: "It's about landscape and the future. I guess I'm thinking about those things a lot-- about the natural landscape of the world and the landscape inside each person. On my last record, everything was sort of sad and redemptive. And this one, it's more extreme in both directions. Some of the songs are much more joyful, and some of the songs are much less redemptive. And then some of the songs are more thoughtful-- more philosophical. I think this record is just about sitting with things."

HARP reports three of The Crying Light's song titles as "Her Eyes Underneath the Ground", "Give My Name", and "Everglade".

In other Antony news, it turns out he guests on not one but four songs on the forthcoming Hercules and Love Affair album. He also joined Björk in the studio recently to film a music video for their Volta duet "Dull Flame of Desire". And in the December 1 issue of England's The Guardian newspaper, Antony wrote an article appreciating the work of late photographer Peter Hujar, who is the subject of a retrospective currently on view at London's Institute of Contemporary Art. Hujer's photograph "Candy Darling on Her Death Bed" was the image on the cover of I Am a Bird Now.

Thanks to reader Paul Gabrielli for the tip.

hell yeah.

Awesome dude.

watch the freaking doc already.

A black and white photograph carrying ambiguous implications about gender and identity? It must be the cover of the new Antony and the Johnsons EP! And there it is, right up there: Pierre-Olivier Deschamps' 1984 image of Japanese butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno, which will grace the front of Antony's Another World EP.

It comes out via Secretly Canadian on October 7 in the U.S. (October 6 via Rough Trade in the UK). As previously reported, Another World is just a teaser of the goodness we'll get on next year's The Crying Light, the follow-up to Antony's 2005 breakthrough I Am a Bird Now.

Another World:

01 Another World
02 Crackagen
03 Shake That Devil
04 Sing for Me
05 Hope Mountain

Antony and the Johnsons:

09-05 Portland, OR - Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall (with the Portland Symphony conducted by James Holmes)
09-10 Milan, Italy - Teatro degli Arcimboldi (with the Milan Symphony conducted by James Holmes)
09-12 Zaragoza, Spain - Expo Zaragoza (with the Milan Symphony conducted by James Holmes)
10-14 Los Angeles, CA - Walt Disney Concert Hall (with orchestra conducted by James Holmes)
10-16 New York, NY - Apollo Theater (with orchestra conducted by James Holmes)
10-30 London, England - The Barbican (with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by James Holmes)
10-31 London, England - The Barbican (with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by James Holmes)

whoa, that looks weird as hell... can't wait to hear it. it better be haunting as fuck

wow, it's been 3 years already.

I've never listened to this guy but it sounds good. Kind of like piano-based sort of jazzy stuff, right?

kind of... nothing can prepare you for it unless you just listen to it.

Which album should I start with?

i am a bird

So start with the first one?

i saw that
good tune