My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross
ANOHNI’s music revolves around the strength found in vulnerability, whether it’s the naked trembling of her voice or the way her lyrics—“It’s my fault”; “Why am I alive?”; “You are an addict/Go ahead, hate yourself”—cut deeper the simpler they get. Her first album of new material with her band the Johnsons since 2010’s *Swanlights* sets aside the more experimental/electronic quality of 2016’s *HOPELESSNESS* for the tender avant-soul most listeners came to know her by. She mourns her friends (“Sliver of Ice”), mourns herself (“It’s My Fault”), and catalogs the seemingly limitless cruelty of humankind (“It Must Change”) with the quiet resolve of someone who knows that anger is fine but the true warriors are the ones who kneel down and open their hearts.
After 13 years, Anohni gets the band back together for a soulful and intense record that provides a safe place to grieve nothing less than the destruction of the planet.
The reserved anger and provocative irony apparent on 2016’s solo project HOPELESSNESS seem to persist on My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross, a new album produced by Jimmy Hogarth and the collaborating band that highlights the early days’ pioneers,…
On her first album in seven years, Anohni eschews experimental sonics for warm vintage soul, but the results are no less vital
On My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross, ANOHNI fashions a masterpiece about trans survival in the wake of ecocide, alienation, prejudice and violence.
Much more strident on her last album, Hopelessness, here she mostly sounds resigned and mournful
Anohni and the Johnsons' new album, 'My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross,' reviewed by Rolling Stone.
ANOHNI is a true one-off. Undoubtedly one of her generation’s most striking, empathetic voices, her songwriting can move from disco-soul to unyielding
Recorded at speed, Anohni’s first album since 2016 adds a soulful swagger to poetic, cathartic rock
My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross by ANOHNI & The Johnsons album review: an outstretched hand from one queer generation to the next
The laidback and unfussy arrangements on ‘My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross’ underserve Anohni's anguished storytelling. Read our review.
ANOHNI and the Johnsons - My Back Was a Bridge For You To Cross album review by Gregory Adams for Northern Transmissions
The New York singer’s voice will make you shiver as it soars over simple guitar, bass and drums on her most approachable album since the mid-00s
This is the singer’s first album in seven years and it sees her tread a more soulful path than before
An unexpected country-soul diversion for the apocalyptic chanteuse. New music review by Joe Muggs