I Am A Bird Now - Antony & The Johnsons

(This review can also be found on UK.BEST-PRICE.COM) How I came across this CD: When I spent some time in Spain a friend of mine used to listen to Antony and The Johnsons. I fell in love with this voice within a second. And later on I forgot about the singer's name. A few years later I visited another good friend in Madrid and suddenly there it was again...this voice I'd never forget. My friends then gave me the CD as a present. The first few weeks afterwards I didn't listen to anything else. There was just me and Antony, so to say ;) And I still play it once in a while when I need some time for myself, while having a hot bath, for example, or in ...

Earlier in 2005 I was travelling down the bypass with the radio on. Everything was fine and then Jo Whiley played a song that apparently had been getting a few requests. I remember hearing it and being affected by its simplicity, it was beautiful but I never picked up on the name of the artist. Months later I caught the end of the Mercury Music Prize ceremony on TV and found the same song being played live. It was then I discovered Anthony & The Johnsons, the next day I went and bought the cd. I Am A Bird Now featured in many of the top album lists of 2005 and won the previously mentioned Mercury prize ahead of acts such as The Kaiser Chiefs and ...