Antony and the Johnsons: Swanlights – review

(Rough Trade)The fourth album from Antony and the Johnsons, a more hopeful affair than its predecessors, opens with the declaration that "everything is new". Elsewhere, Antony, whose favoured subjects in the past have included death and body dysmorphia, chants: "Thank you for your love" repeatedly over a fanfare of horns. Swanlights is not without its bleak moments, but these are conveyed with a greater sense of calm, as on the beautiful "The Spirit Was Gone". It's a relief that "Flétta", the d...

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