Antony and the Johnsons - Cut The World

The A.V. Club“Antony Hegarty’s voice is something of a pop-culture enigma...” There is a 60-piece orchestra to help him execute Cut The World, but Antony is the element that sticks out...

Drowned In Sound“Some glorious live tracks, now roll on the new stuff...” The album is full of sweeping orchestral arrangements and Antony’s voice rawly cuts through it all, sounding, as ever, kind of like Nina Simone...

Pitchfork“A reminder of the overwhelming force carried by Antony's best music...” Like the sun, it's something we all need in our lives, even if it feels good to get out of it once in a while...

The Independent“The positives outweigh the negatives...” But elsewhere, these grand new performances with the Danish National Chamber Orchestra serve to pinion some songs too fixedly, as if this were their ultimate definitive state, rather than just another stage in an ongoing process of becoming...

Guardian“Hegarty says unsayable things in nuanced riddles...” A white man with a black female soul voice – but bleached to the point of ghostliness and crossed with former Cocteau Twin Elizabeth Fraser...

BBC“An exquisitely beautiful album...” This is deep soul music in excelsis: abandoned, heartfelt, utterly sincere. It sounds like a forgotten Hollywood musical written by a depressed romantic; a Disney Morrissey swathed in torch song and spotlight...

The Telegraph“Patriarchal monotheism’s loss is our gain...” Hegarty has mastered the art of turning performance into a kind of ritual ceremony and the magic of these symphonic concert recordings blows their previously released versions out of the water...

Clash Music“A beautiful diversion, rather than a soul-stirring call to arms...” Orchestral reworkings rarely result in versions which supplant the originals, instead providing thoughtful distractions, and here Antony’s vocal seems so normal, so equal to the orchestra, that it loses some of its impact...