The Lake | ||||
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Released | November 2, 2004 | |||
Genre | Baroque pop | |||
Length | 14:54 | |||
Label | Secretly Canadian SC113 | |||
Producer | Antony Hegarty | |||
Antony and the Johnsons chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Pitchfork | 7.5/10 [2] |
The Lake is a three-track EP by Antony and the Johnsons, released in 2004 on Secretly Canadian.
Secretly Canadian is an American independent record label based in Bloomington, Indiana. Secretly Canadian is a label included in Secretly Group, which also includes Dead Oceans and Jagjaguwar. Secretly Group includes the three record labels as well as a music publisher known as Secretly Publishing, representing artists, writers, film makers, producers, and comedians.
Anohni and the Johnsons is an American music group presenting the work of Anohni and her collaborators.
I Am a Bird Now is the second album by New York City band Antony and the Johnsons. It won the Mercury Prize on September 6, 2005. After winning the prize, the album shot up the UK albums chart from #135 to #16 in one week, the biggest jump in the history of the Mercury Music Prize. As of September 2011, UK sales stood at 220,000 copies.
Anohni, styled as ANOHNI, is an English-born singer, songwriter, and visual artist. She is the lead singer of the band Anohni and the Johnsons, formerly known as Antony and the Johnsons.
Michael Cashmore is an English composer and musician currently living in Berlin. He has created music under the name of Nature and Organisation since the early 1980s and more recently (2006) under his own name.
Antony and the Johnsons was the debut album by Anohni and the Johnsons, formerly known as Antony and the Johnsons, recorded in 1998 and released officially in 2000.
Animal Serenade is a live album by American rock musician Lou Reed, recorded in Los Angeles at the Wiltern Theatre in 2003 after The Raven. The show features a drummer-less band. In addition, Anohni, of Antony and the Johnsons fame, contributes background vocals throughout and sings the lead on "Set the Twilight Reeling" and "Candy Says".
Live at St. Olave's Church is a 2003 album by English experimental group Current 93. It was released in on the branch label PanDurtro of David Tibet's of Current 93's label Durtro.
"The Dull Flame of Desire" is a song recorded by Icelandic singer Björk featuring Anohni from the band Anohni and the Johnsons. It was released as the fifth and final single from her seventh full-length studio album, Volta, on 29 September 2008. She sung it twelve times on her global Volta Tour, often with Anohni.
The Crying Light is Antony and the Johnsons' third studio album and the follow-up to the band's widely acclaimed second LP, I Am a Bird Now. The album was released on January 19, 2009, and preceded by lead single, "Another World", released through Secretly Canadian on October 7, 2008. The Crying Light features orchestral arrangements by Anohni and Nico Muhly.
"Cripple and the Starfish" is a song written by Anohni and performed by Antony and the Johnsons, a Mercury Prize-winning music act from New York City. It was initially released on the compilation CD God Shave the Queen! in 1996. A different recording subsequently appeared on Antony and the Johnsons, the self-titled first album recorded in 1998. In 2003, a live version of this song appeared on the split album Live at St. Olave's.
Swanlights is the fourth studio album by Antony and the Johnsons, released on October 12, 2010 worldwide through Secretly Canadian, and October 11, 2010 in the United Kingdom through Rough Trade. To accompany the album release, the band has produced a 144-page art book also titled Swanlights, which includes paintings, collages, photography and writing by Anohni. The album was preceded by lead single/EP Thank You for Your Love, released on August 30, 2010 in the UK and 1 September in the US.
Cut the World is a live album by Antony and the Johnsons, recorded in Copenhagen and released in August 2012.
Turning, full title Turning: A Film by Charles Atlas and Antony is a documentary musical art film made by video artist Charles Atlas in collaboration with British-American artist Anohni and her band Antony and The Johnsons.
"Manta Ray" is an original song composed by J. Ralph and Anohni and performed by Anohni. The song was released as the lead single from the soundtrack album of 2015 documentary Racing Extinction written by Anohni.
Hopelessness is the debut solo album by British-American artist Anohni, former frontwoman of Antony and the Johnsons, released on 6 May 2016 on Secretly Canadian, Rough Trade, and Hostess. Featuring co-production by Hudson Mohawke and Oneohtrix Point Never, the album departs from the chamber pop style of her previous work, instead exploring an electronic sound and engaging directly with political and environmental themes in the form of protest songs.
"Drone Bomb Me" is a song by Anohni, the lead singer of Antony and the Johnsons. It is the first track and second single from her debut solo studio album, Hopelessness, and was released digitally on 9 March 2016 on Rough Trade Records.
Daniel Lopatin is a Brooklyn-based experimental musician who records primarily under the pseudonym Oneohtrix Point Never. Early in his career as both a solo artist and as a member of several groups, he released a number of LPs and extended plays on a variety of independent labels. In 2010, he signed to Editions Mego and released his major label debut Returnal. In 2011, he founded the record label Software. In 2013, Lopatin signed to British electronic label Warp Records and released his label debut R Plus Seven.
"Candy Says" is a song written by Lou Reed. The song is the first track on the Velvet Underground's self-titled third album. It is one of four songs Lou Reed explicitly wrote in the voice of a female character, in the case of "Candy Says", a transgender woman, telling her experiences. Each would begin with the woman's name and then be followed by the verb "says". "Stephanie Says" was the first.
My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross is the fifth studio album by Anohni and the Johnsons, previously known as Antony and the Johnsons. It is set for release on July 7, 2023, by Secretly Canadian. The album was produced by Jimmy Hogarth, and features contributions from Leo Abrahams, Chris Vatalaro, Sam Dixon, and Rob Moose.