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Anohni

November 2024

  • Reed lobbied record companies on her behalf … Anohni, Royal Festival Hall.

    Anohni review – uniquely gifted interpreter pays homage to mentor Lou Reed

  • two people kneel in front of shed with the word 'transa' on it

    ‘Experimental, queer and kind of magical’: Sade and Sam Smith feature on 46-track album for trans rights

July 2024

  • Composite for Tory years music piece

    Sleaford Mods, the 1975, Fred Again: the songs that sum up each year of Tory government

    Dave’s lament for the Grenfell atrocity, Dua Lipa’s bedroom disco for a locked-down nation, Kneecap’s Badenoch-riling rap, Elbow’s hymn for asylum seekers … here are the tracks that defined 14 years of Conservative rule

December 2023

  • images of four artists Anonhi, Renée Rapp, Kelela, Christine and the Queens

    From Renée Rapp to Anohni – the year in queer pop

  • Composite: Alexis' Year in Pop 2023. Blur, Taylor Swift, Mitski

    Best music of 2023
    Blank space: how Taylor Swift – and an aching sense of loss – dominated music in 2023

July 2023

  • Anohni.

    On my radar
    On my radar: Anohni’s cultural highlights

    The singer and artist on Marvin Gaye’s masterpiece, the shameful price of peace in Afghanistan – and why Arnold Schwarzenegger is such a hoot
  • Anohni.

    Anohni and the Johnsons: My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross review – piercing heartache

    Recorded at speed, Anohni’s first album since 2016 adds a soulful swagger to poetic, cathartic rock
  • ‘Idiosyncratic intensity’ … Anohni.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Anohni and the Johnsons: My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross review – intense emotion and captivating soul

    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

May 2023

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    Anohni on anger, empathy and trans rights: ‘The UK is one of the most misogynist countries in the world’

    The spellbinding singer returns with an album of warm, empathic folk-soul – plus a screaming lemur – to salute LGBTQ+ trailblazers, Lou Reed and more. She explains why we must embrace forgiveness if we are ever to make change

March 2023

  • ‘Hysterical drag and disconcerting tenderness’ … the Blacklips Performance Cult.

    Drag, punk, horror! Blacklips Performance Cult – in pictures

    Earthquakes! CS gas! Thatcher impersonations! In the midst of New York’s aids crisis, a cabal of artists, drag queens and punks formed an extraordinary theatre collective

June 2022

  • She inhabits songs so completely that there’s little room for interpretation … Neneh Cherry.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Neneh Cherry: The Versions review – all-star covers album can’t touch a true original

    Sia, Robyn and Anohni are among those interpreting Cherry’s back catalogue, but it works best when it strays from the big hits

October 2021

  • Marvin Gaye at the piano in 1974.

    Ranked
    The greatest songs about the climate crisis – ranked!

    As Cop26 opens in Glasgow, we provide the soundtrack, ranging from Gojira’s metal fury to gorgeous environmental paeans by Childish Gambino, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell

September 2020

  • Anohni, press image

    Anohni on her new track R.N.C. 2020: 'It's me, screaming in the past, for the present'

    Anohni
    Inspired by the fear and loathing on display at the Republican National Convention, Anohni talks us through her latest song and its uniquely unsettling video

September 2019

  • Image composite for best of the century - Music 100 04

    Best culture of the 21st century
    The 100 best albums of the 21st century

    We polled 45 music writers to rank the definitive LPs of the 21st century so far. Read our countdown of passionate pop, electrifying rock and anthemic rap – and see if you agree

August 2017

  • Top to bottom: Future Feminism artists Kembra Pfahler, Johanna Constantine and Anohni.

    Anohni on Future Feminism: 'Trump is just a distraction from the core issues'

    The transgender musician is bringing her Future Feminism project to Europe, putting feminine values first – and argues that our very ecology depends on them

March 2017

  • Julie Cunningham, Hannah Burfield, and Harry Alexander in Returning

    Julie Cunningham & Company review – words get in the way

    Julie Cunningham’s first works as head of her own company have passion and subtlety, but struggle to compete with a forceful spoken accompaniment

February 2017

  • Illustration of heart-shaped guitar strings with Johnny Mathis, One Direction, Anohni, Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin

    A history of the love song in 10 tracks

    From gay anthems to online romance, love songs have charted our changing times. Here’s our guide to seven decades of swooning in pop

January 2017

  • Day 1 - Glastonbury Festival<br>GLASTONBURY, ENGLAND - JUNE 27: Win Butler of Arcade Fire performs as the band headline the Pyramid Stage on Day 1 of the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm on June 27, 2014 in Glastonbury, England. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Redferns via Getty Images)

    Music blog
    Arcade Fire, Gorillaz, Fiona Apple and more – this week's anti-Trump songs reviewed

    Ahead of the presidential inauguration, musicians piled in to set their thoughts to music. Here are five of the most notable

December 2016

  • David Bowie Blackstar still

    Best culture 2016
    Albums of the year 2016 – our readers respond

  • Complex, rich, formidable … Anohni.

    Best music of 2016
    Best albums of 2016: No 6 Hopelessness by Anohni

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