Anohni Hegarty is one of the most unusual and compelling singers in popular music, though “popular” is something of a misnomer — hernamesake band, Anohni and the Johnsons, is beloved in indie music circles and not widely known outside them. Yet if you’re not singing jazz or opera, you’re a pop singer by default. Hegarty is a pop singer, then, with a voice that flutters and trembles on baroque, semi-orchestral songs. They are not aimed at a mass-market audience. They are beautiful, vulnerable and haunting. The Crying Light is a collection of songs reflecting on the natural world. MORE
Anohni and the Johnsons: “Epilepsy is Dancing”
