The Crying Game
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Astral Weeks, Music From Big Pink, Funhouse, Exile On Main Street, Berlin, Deserter’s Songs, Funeral: the most enduring records seem rooted in a palpable sense of place, even if it’s an imaginal one. The actual location evoked on Antony & the Johnsons’ third full length album The Crying Light might be unclear (and Antony Hegarty’s voice often evokes Van’s admission of feeling like “nothin’ but a stranger in this world”) but it’s no less powerful for all of that.
Born in the southern English town of Chichester, of English-Irish parentage, Hegarty spent most of his childhood moving around California, but ...