New striking strokes

13 June 2023

Artwork single

Band: ANOHNI AND THE JOHNSONS
Who: Singer/songwriter/visual artist
formerly named Antony (Hegarty) and
her backing band.

New album: MY BACK WAS A BRIDGE FOR YOU TO CROSS
The 6th longplayer. Out on July7th.

Artwork: A portrait of Marsha P. Johnson (1945 – 1992), also known as
Malcolm Michaels Jr., by photographer Alvin Baltrop. She was an American gay
liberation activist and self-identified drag queen. Anohni admired her and met
her only once, at a gay parade in NYC, unfortunately, the day before she died

Following the lead single, titled It Must Change comes a second new track.
SILVER OF ICE . The song is inspired by some of the last words that Lou Reed,
who worked with Ahohnni on one of her albums and sang with her on several
occasions, said to her before he passed away in 2013.

Anohni: “A friend of mine expressed to me in the final months of his life that the
simplest sensations had begun to feel almost rapturous; a carer had placed a shard
of ice on his tongue one day and it was such a sweet and unbelievable feeling that it
caused him to weep with gratitude. He was a hardcore kind of guy and these moments
were transforming the way he was seeing things. I wrote ‘Sliver of Ice,’ remembering
those words of his.”

Silver Of Ice is a goosebumps love ballad.
ANOHNI’s voice was made for melancholic
musings like this.

Not the single’s artwork (on top) is remarkable,
so is the EYES-catching video clip.

Watch/listen.

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