{"title":"Anohni","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnohni is a British singer, composer, and visual artist. Born in 1971 in Chichester, West Sussex, England, UK, she initially gained recognition as Antony Hegarty with her Mercury Music Prize winning album \"I Am a Bird Now\" (2004) as part of the band Antony And The Johnsons. Now known as Anohni, her album \"Hopelessness\" (2016) was also nominated for the Mercury Music Prize that year.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"hopelessness","title":"Hopelessness","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnohni, the singer of Antony and the Johnsons, releases \u003ci\u003eHopelessness\u003c\/i\u003e on Rough Trade \/ Secretly Canadian. A collaboration with Oneohtrix Point Never and Hudson Mohawke, \u003ci\u003eHopelessness\u003c\/i\u003e 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. It's a contemporary, seductive and cutting edge statement from a true one off.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rough Trade Records","offers":[{"title":"Black LPx2","offer_id":50406811631947,"sku":"399986","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Pink | LP","offer_id":50406812352843,"sku":"1125136","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50406811959627,"sku":"1002723","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50406812778827,"sku":"399985","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/e9ff5849-bc4c-4571-9745-992f24bdc943_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726591441"},{"product_id":"my-back-was-a-bridge-for-you-to-cross","title":"My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnohni's\u003c\/strong\u003e sixth studio album, \u003cem\u003eMy Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross\u003c\/em\u003e, expresses a world view by shape-shifting through a broad range of subject matter. Through a personal lens, \u003cstrong\u003eAnohni\u003c\/strong\u003e addresses loss of loved ones, inequality, alienation, acceptance, cruelty, ecocide, devastation wrought by Abrahamic theologies, Future Feminism, and the possibility that we might yet transform our ways of thinking, our spiritual ideas, our societal structures, and our relationships with the rest of nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn her first full album since 2016’s \u003cem\u003eHopelessness\u003c\/em\u003e, she explains the creative process was painstaking, yet also inspired, joyful, and intimate, a renewal and a renaming of her response to the world as she sees it. \"\u003cem\u003eSome of these songs respond to global and environmental concerns first voiced in popular music over 50 years ago\u003c\/em\u003e.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnohni's\u003c\/strong\u003e approach since her last record has shifted from someone tasked with challenging global denial, to an artist seeking to support others on the front lines. \"\u003cem\u003eI learned with Hopelessness that I can provide a soundtrack that might fortify people in their work, in their activism, in their dreaming and decision-making. I can sing of an awareness that makes others feel less alone, people for whom the frank articulation of these frightening times is not a source of discomfort but a cause for identification and relief\u003c\/em\u003e.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn \"\u003cem\u003eIt Must Change\u003c\/em\u003e,\" \u003cstrong\u003eAnohni\u003c\/strong\u003e soulfully describes systems in collapse with a note of compassion for humanity: \"\u003cem\u003eThe truth is I always thought you were beautiful in your own way \/\/ That’s why this is so sad\u003c\/em\u003e.\" \u003cstrong\u003eAnohni's\u003c\/strong\u003e voice is sensual and smoothed, selectively reaching to the edges of what it can contain. \"\u003cem\u003eWe’re not getting out of here \/\/ No one’s getting out of here \/\/ This is our world\u003c\/em\u003e,\" she murmurs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA portrait of legendary human rights activist Marsha P. Johnson taken by Alvin Baltrop features on the cover, reflecting a 25-year relationship with the memory of Johnson that \u003cstrong\u003eAnohni\u003c\/strong\u003e has held space for in the presentation of her own work. Elsewhere, the album artwork states \"\u003cem\u003eIt's Time to Feel What's Really Happening\u003c\/em\u003e.\" In some ways it feels as if she is reaching across her life’s expression, and has found a moment of unique composure, wearing her long exploration of disarming intensity, with the maturity of a painter carefully choosing her colors. \"\u003cem\u003eI want the work to be useful, to help others move through these conversations we are now facing, to move with dignity and resilience through this bitter dawning\u003c\/em\u003e.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rough Trade Records","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50490786742603,"sku":"2025128","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"White LP","offer_id":50490787037515,"sku":"2025129","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50490786545995,"sku":"2025127","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Anohni.MyBack.4000pxX4000px_efdbbb12_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727674265"},{"product_id":"paradise-ep","title":"Paradise EP","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnohni will release \u003ci\u003eParadise\u003c\/i\u003e, the companion EP to last year's \u003ci\u003eHopelessness\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the most critically acclaimed and discussed albums of 2016, via Rough Trade Records. In collaboration with Oneohtrix Point Never and Hudson Mohawke, on \u003ci\u003eParadise\u003c\/i\u003e, Anohni seeks to support activist conversations and disrupt assumptions about popular music through the collision of electronic sound and highly politicized lyrics. \u003ci\u003eParadise \u003c\/i\u003eincludes new songs as well as material recently debuted live. On the title track, \u003ci\u003eParadise\u003c\/i\u003e, Anohni voices ecstatic alienation, describing a dystopian life filled with horror, awe, comfort and threat. She expresses a sense of disembodiment: \"Myself, I'm here... not here, as a point of consciousness.\" The music is wild and invigorating with a heavy beat conceived by Hudson Mohawke and twisting vocal treatments by Daniel Lopatin. Nine portraits of women on the EP artwork reflect the feminine oracle that Anohni evoked in her live concert tour. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10\" with CD Version.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rough Trade Records","offers":[{"title":"10\"","offer_id":50495012143435,"sku":"1004707","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50495011357003,"sku":"1004708","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/3fa364d1-fcd7-4d48-9c86-171bafa9c7db_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727708761"},{"product_id":"i-will-survive","title":"I Will Survive","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnohni releases an emotive cover of Gloria Gaynor's 1978 classic\u003ci\u003e I WIll Survive\u003c\/i\u003e. 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Anohni’s rendition of \u003ci\u003eIt’s All Over Now...\u003c\/i\u003e reads as a hopeful, future goodbye to times dominated by oppression.\u003ci\u003e With Be My Husband,\u003c\/i\u003e textually woven with marital submission and want for acceptance, she examines our reliance on the very systems that fail us. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn borrowing these songs, Anohni adopts their history along with her contemporary interpretations, respecting the lineage of the people’s movement while calling for its continuance today. “When Biden said ‘Americans don’t want revolution, they want a return to decency,’ he was wrong,” she explained. “We all know deep down that the continuation of our civilizations for much longer will require seismic change.” \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secretly Canadian","offers":[{"title":"Black | 7\"","offer_id":50513393385803,"sku":"1098748","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/f695e528-4a76-491c-b838-e311032654ed_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727929967"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_13ab357c_thumbnail_4096_9088a5c7-9df0-4d7c-aa78-4868e5954d5f.jpg?v=1726591390","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/anohni.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}