Anohni and the Johnsons: “Another World”

11/30/2008

Anohni’s teaser EP — before the release of The Crying Light next year — begins with an end. Like a poem on their deathbed, the warbling wonder sings beautifully over a piano about needing another world on this EP’s title track, because “this one’s nearly gone.” They then lists the things they will miss the most when they go. It’s a wonderfully tragic song to open with and it swells perfectly into the rest of the short player, oozing with pianos, lush strings, guitars and poetic lyrics about nature’s throbbing life. Things get real dirty and lively on live favorite “Shake That Devil,” a call-and-repeat back-alley jazz stomper. Contrary to the morbid opener, the EP ends with “Hope Mountain,” a lullaby filled with life, leaving the listener inspired and hungry for whatever Anohni will reveal in 2009. MORE