This is a great EP. The title track is just pure beauty, and one of the saddest songs I've ever heard. If you already have the track, be sure to visit Antony's website and watch the animated video. It's brilliant. 'The Horror Is Gone' is also a great track. It reminds me a lot of Roxy Music. The album cover is also a work of art.
Downloaded The Lake last weekend which is absolutely fabulous. Came back a week later to get the other tracks to find it wasn't available in the UK. I cannot believe the music industry's concerted efforts to destroy the industry and turn lovers of great music into pirates. Not only do we get a limited selection of tracks in the UK but we pay £8.99 a month instead of just $9.99 in the US. Please, please treat us a bit more reasonably.
The Lake is an Edgar Allan Poe poem set to music that does the poet justice indeed. It is one of Antony's strongest songs anywhere in his catalog, and is every bit as essential as anything on I Am A Bird Now. The Horror Has Gone is very very strong as well and it's pretty, simple structure makes it a strong candidate for the song to get stuck in your head for the day.
The fragile tones of an undercooled piano, near freezing, combined with a high pitch throat voice wich brings tears of emotion to my eyes... and after the tears, the sweet confirmation that the world is a more beautifull place in wich this sweet sorrow is possible.
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