:date: '2010-12-15 10:13:53' .. index:: music Antony and the Johnsons/Swanlighs ================================= .. image:: /_images/images/gallery/2010/2010-mediacover/cdcover-antony_and_the_johnsons-swanlights.jpg :align: center While searching the background story for another song/group I stumbled again over `Antony and the Johnsons `__. This wasn't the first time. But since I've heard his version of `Leonard Cohens `__ `If it be your will `__, I unfortunately never found time to listen to a whole Album of him. So I picked up his recently published Album `Swanlights `__. I'm actually more impressed than I thought I would be. The Album doesn't have a big catchy song so far (or I couldn't really spot it. Please correct me if I'm wrong), but what I really appreciated was that  you can jump into it at any song you like and you just can't pick a boring one. And you're gonna be released at the end. So you get easy in, but there's no way out than listening it to the end. Especially to collaboration with `Bjørk `__ I liked a lot. But I'm a `Bjørk `__ `anyway `__, so that doesn't count. For me *Antony and the Johnsons* has always been somewhere close to the `Wainwright `__'s (I haven't heard a whole album of one of them either). So somewhere between country and good music. Now "Antony and the Johnsons" have/has (is it plural or singular here?) moved much further into the direction of good music.