Johnson is just one of many guiding lights across ANOHNI’s latest album. Johnson, the revolutionary NYC trans activist who, famously, threw the first brick at Stonewall in 1969 and later founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaires (S.T.A.R.) radical group with Sylvia Rivera. Her latest offering, My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross, is a revelatory matter an album with DNA coded in sensuality and destiny and healing and heroes, told through vignettes of jazz, Motown, funk and post-disco.Īdorning the cover of My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross is a portrait of Marsha P. But now, ANOHNI has returned with a Johnsons crew that looks different than it did last decade and a soundscape that is relenting and gorgeously subdued. What a gift Swanlights was for listeners. ANOHNI’s feather-light, weathered and wayfaring vocal runs crackled and pierced through a haze of soft, sure-fire arrangements. There’s a genuine appreciation and affinity for tones and thematics that encapsulate a vast sonic landscape. A track like “I’m In Love” implemented textures reminiscent of Van Dyke Parks’ Song Cycle, while the piano ballad “The Spirit Was Gone” evoked a cadence and passion akin to Let It Be Me-era Nina Simone. Inspired by the work of Björk, ANOHNI was able to forge experimental R&B with pop architecture. ![]() That project, Swanlights, was a magnificent feat in storytelling, in which ANOHNI and her cohort spoke of ghosts and death and love with delicacy and streamlined vividness. It’s been a long time since English singer/songwriter ANOHNI made an album with her band, the Johnsons 13 years, to be exact.
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