Antony and the Johnsons

Antony and the Johnsons

Anthony and the Johnsons are an experimental musical project of singer-songwriter and performance artist Antony Hegarty. The band won the Mercury Prize for best album of 2005 for their release I Am a Bird Now.

Fast Facts:

Current Members: Julia Kent, Parker Kindred, Jeff Langston, Doug Wieselman, Maxim Moston, Rob Moose
Founded the Blacklips Performance Cult at New York University
Collaborated with Lou Reed on his The Raven project
Hagerty appeared in the Steve Buscemi film Animal Factory

Albums

Career Overview

Hegarty released his debut album on the independent label Durtro and an EP follow-up in 1998. After being recruited by Lou Reed to participate in his concept album The Raven, "Antony and the Johnsons" were signed to the label Secretly Canadian, which re-released his debut album in 2004.

In 2005, Antony and the Johnsons released their second full-length album, I Am a Bird Now, to an enthusiastic reception, winning that year's Mercury Music Prize for Best Album of the Year and ranking on numerous critical Top 10 lists.

Themes

Hegarty explores a variety of themes throughout his music, particularly relating to alienation, sexual ambiguity and transgenderism. Inspired by British synth pop and torch singers of the 1970s, he's frequently cited as a member of the so-called New Weird America folk movement.

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Entertainment | Music | Indie

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