There seems to be a trace of something we haven’t seen before in the latest release  from Antony Hegarty, the supremely gifted front man of Antony and the Johnsons: nostalgia.
It’s evident in that torso-bearing cover of the band’s latest EP, Thank You For Your Love – a photo taken on the street by Antony years ago, when he first arrived in downtown New York from California – salad days also captured beautifully in the video for the title track from this EP, the joyful (by Antony standards anyway) “Thank You For Your Love”, comprised of super 8 footage shot of Antony and two friends, in early ‘90’s pre-Giuliani regime Gotham.  The EP – a precursor to Antony’s next full length, Swanlights due out in October, features appearances from Johnsons members Julia Kent, Doug Wieselman, Maxim Moston and Rob Moose, and five tracks, including a cover John Lennon’s “Imagine”. Never mind that this is the umpteenth rendering of this most iconic of signatures – Antony, as you knew he would, has claimed it: acoustic guitar and a vocal that is direct and hopeful but not overly sentimental, ending over a quiet, pulsating electronic wall.

That alone ought to get you into to this EP. As far as some of us are concerned, Antony could sing “Row Row Your Boat” and make it sound exquisite.  But we want to know your take!  Are you ready to give some love to Thank You For Your Love? Or maybe just some like? Or an indifferent ‘meh’?  Rate the record, review it, and post it on Noisevox – the latest from Antony and the Johnsons!