When I was in college, I would often wander over to visit my friend Lucy, who no matter what time of day always had something interesting going on.
11:30pm and she’d be whipping up a delicious tempeh stir fry. 3:00am and she’d just have found an old poetry anthology and want to show me some fabulous obscure poem she’d just rediscovered.
One especially memorable night I turned up and she had an “amazing new drag queen CD” that she wanted to share with me. She fired up “Hope There’s Someone” from I Am A Bird Now, and I felt warm shivers run down my spine and into the depths of my gut. That’s how I heard of Antony Hegarty, and the utterly mind-blowing Antony and the Johnsons.
Their new album The Crying Light just came out a few days ago, and this is the video for the first single, “Epilepsy is Dancing.” Every new thing they release, I think I’ve finally reached the end of whatever tremulous emotional range there is inside of me that responds to them. And once again, they’ve pushed me to a new place.
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