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[liquidlistener]

I need another place Will there be peace? I need another world This one’s nearly gone. 🎵 #antonyandthejohnsons #thecryinglight #anotherworld #dandelions #songsquotes #songslyrics #beautifulalbum

[morganwritesaboutsongs-blog]

"Everglade" by Antony and the Johnsons (from The Crying Light, 2009)

Antony Hegarty's second and third albums, I Am A Bird Now and The Crying Light, work as a symbiotic pair because their narrative trajectories are so similar. In the former, Antony pleads to be a woman throughout, taking detours on every song to address different aspects of this powerful need, and finding redemption at the very end as a "bird girl". In the latter, Antony cries out in grief for a raped, dying, pillaged earth, only to find paradise, "another world", in the final song "Everglade". While the whole album leading up to it shows complete musical restraint, "Everglade" absolutely swirls with gorgeously thick, dense orchestration, suiting the overwhelming, heavenly nature of the song. Maybe he arrives at this new, unfettered world in death or in a dream, but whatever it is, Antony has found it.