Antony Hegarty loves themes. So, it's no surprise that the fourth album from Antony and the Johnsons, Swanlights, opens with the insistence that "everything is new" and ends by repeating this line with the added image of "your face and my face / tenderly renewed." Between these points, Swanlights is an evocative, but flawed, journey up a sonic mountain and . . .
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