Anohni - Hopelessness

Music 4 years ago

Anohni - Hopelessness

The artist formerly known as Antony and the Johnsons made her name with nimble piano torch songs, but for her first album as Anohni,

she emerged as a velvet-voiced harbinger of doom, her anguish at drone warfare, climate change, Guantánamo, the Obama administration and humanity at large set to an exuberant electronic soundtrack.

If that suggested an uneasy listen then that was the point. Complex, rich and formidable, Anohni’s masterwork proved that political music in 2016 could be galvanising and confrontational.