Out 6th May on Rough Trade/Secretly Canadian
Presents ‘Drone Bomb Me’ single and video, starring Naomi Campbell
“Anohni has arrived at the high table of electronic nowness. She has moved from the lush pastoral piano modern compositional landscape framing her voice into a more immediate world of dance-mutated electronica. A lyrical content that is deadly serious, the words and phrases of someone struggling to come to terms with the violence and shattering armaments of the human race violating and obliterating itself. Wondering about complicity and one’s place on this poisoned planet. Was pop ever so revelatory or so profound?”
— Geoff Travis, London 2016
ANOHNI, the singer of Antony and the Johnsons, announces the release of her new album, HOPELESSNESS, out May 6th on Rough Trade / Secretly Canadian. A collaboration with Oneohtrix Point Never and Hudson Mohawke,HOPELESSNESS is a dance record with soulful vocals and lyrics addressing subjects including surveillance, drone warfare and ecocide. The album seeks to disrupt assumptions about popular music through the collision of electronic sound and highly politicized lyrics.
To coincide with the Climate Conference in Paris last December, ANOHNI released her debut single, “4 Degrees”. The Guardian called it “Hugely affecting… instantly earns its place in the pantheon of great musical protests.”
Stream ANOHNI’s “4 DEGREES” –https://open.spotify.com/track/4E1OG7S9sDDlGLfobTmCoV
Listen to ANOHNI’s “Drone Bomb Me” : https://anohni.lnk.to/dronebombme
“’Drone Bomb Me’ is the beautiful yet brutal second single from HOPELESSNESS. As described by ANOHNI, “’Drone Bomb Me’ is a love song written from the perspective of a young girl in Afghanistan whose family has been executed by unmanned U.S. drones. She dreams of being annihilated.” The powerful video for “Drone Bomb Me” is directed by Nail and features an astonishing performance by Naomi Campbell. Directed by Nabil, art directed and styled byRiccardo Tisci for Givenchy.
Watch ANOHNI’s “Drone Bomb Me” – HERE or HERE on Apple Music
Pre Order Hopeless ness via iTUNES here: https://itunes.apple.com/nz/album/hopelessness/id1088241432
or from your favourite indie record store on LP or CD!
HOPELESSNESS Tracklisting:
01. Drone Bomb Me
02. 4 Degrees
03. Watch Me
04. Execution
05. I Don’t Love You Anymore
06. Obama
07. Violent Men
08. Why Did You Separate Me From The Earth?
09. Crisis
10. Hopelessness
11. Marrow
“Hopelessness is the genius of Anohni and her masterful songwriting. The long low sexy beats, the skittering colorful and playful rhythms surround her voice, which is the silky center. Anohni has replaced the stories of abandonment, pain and desire with the biggest issues of our time. This revolutionary move is truly astounding. She understands the disasters of war, climate collapse and totalitarianism in its many new forms. She understands media and she understands groove. Hopelessness is an entirely new mix of love and power, sex and despair delivered with her heavenly voice and incantatory melodies.”
— Laurie Anderson, NYC 2016
“Once, some time ago, Anohni, who sings so exquisitely on this new record which is really about defiance and naming names–the name you want to be called, your birthright–was known as Antony but it didn’t measure up to what was felt inside, and it is my belief that Anohni’s voice would have closed up if Anohni had stayed Antony and the words would have stopped, too, because the naming was not as accurate as Anohni’s soul required to sing what needed to be sung. And written. In a senseHopelessness is Anohni’s first album–or first album as a true body, which is housed, now, in the soulful shelter of sound: sound that stretches Anohni’s throat and tongue and words and thus our hearts. The record is fierce–fierce in its desire to breathe and be heard.”
— Hilton Als, NYC 2016
Follow ANOHNI:
Website / Facebook / Instagram
Antonyandthejohnsons.com
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