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Bittersweet Symphonies; Antony and the Johnsons Find Grace in Glamour
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YOU DON'T ALWAYS find purity in innocence.
Fact one: Antony (Hegarty, but best known for being of "Antony and the Johnsons") models himself on Isabella Rossellini in Blue Velvet, and the solipsistic, dashing beauty of Soft Cell's Marc Almond. Not one of the songs on his recent sophomore album, I Am a Bird Now, has a pounding refrain to match the elegiac disillusionment of Almond's "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye"--his songs are way too airy for that, sugared fancies--but Antony's voice is sti...
