I Am a Bird Now

[A] strings-garnished plunge into the depths of heartbreak (and gender-bending)..." - Grade: B+ Entertainment Weekly (No. 804/805, p.133)

Ranked #10 in Entertainment Weekly's 'Top Ten Records of the Year' - "The music - equal parts muted cabaret and heavenly modern hymns - flies like the bird of the title. Entertainment Weekly (p.143)

Album Of The Year - "Not just a truly brilliant record, but a record that seemed to promise that the pop music mainstream need never be the same again. Mojo

Ranked #1 in Mojo's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2005" - "Not just a truly brilliant record, but a record that seemed to promise that the pop music mainstream need never be the same again. Mojo (p.56)

Ranked #43 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "[L]onesome tales of heartbreak, longing and loss, finally arriving at some kind of redemption. An essential journey. Mojo (p.62)

5 stars out of 5 - "[T]his is tough, honest, uncompromising beauty and the next great voice in music. Mojo (p.88)

...let him into your heart and you'll be desperate to start singing his praises. NME

An extraordinary and extraordinarily beautiful record. OMM (12/05, p.62)

...an instant late-night classic. Q (01/06, p.76)

4 stars out of 5 - "[Antony's voice is] an instrument of delicacy and rapture in which Nina Simone, Morrissey and Joni Mitchell seem to inhabit the same breath... Rolling Stone (No. 967, p.84)

Ranked #28 in Spin's "40 Best Albums Of 2005" - "[His falsetto] resonates with the power of decidedly nonmale vocalists like Nico and Nina Simone... Spin (p.61)

Scarily intimate and irresistibly beautiful." - Grade: A- Spin (p.92)

Included in The Wire's "2005 Rewind: 50 Records Of The Year. The Wire (p.41)

[I]t's Antony's voice that will move you, make you swoon. The Wire (p.51)

4 stars out of 5 - "Antony's eloquent tales of alienation an love, played with Bad Seeds vigour by The Johnsons, are precious but palatable, and provoke compelling vocals from seasoned outsiders. Uncut (p.105)