ANOHNI
Shattering, operatic vocals floating over cold electronic landscapes. A powerful collision of soulful vulnerability and urgent political defiance.
Shattering, operatic vocals floating over cold electronic landscapes. A powerful collision of soulful vulnerability and urgent political defiance.
ANOHNI creates music that feels like a beautiful, terrifying wake-up call. Her sound is defined by one of the most distinctive voices in modern music: a rich, androgynous vibrato that carries the weight of classical tragedy and the soul of gospel. Whether she is backed by a minimalist piano or a crushing wall of electronic sub-bass, the emotional stakes are always at their absolute peak.
What makes her truly unique is the juxtaposition of that vulnerable, human voice against cold, synthetic production. She uses the language of pop and dance music to deliver uncompromising messages about surveillance, environmental collapse, and global conflict. It is music that refuses to let the listener look away, turning the dance floor into a site of deep moral and emotional reckoning.
Start with the album HOPELESSNESS. It is the definitive bridge between her chamber-pop roots and her electronic evolution, featuring production from Oneohtrix Point Never and Hudson Mohawke that perfectly frames her urgent, haunting calls for change.
Anohni Hegarty (formerly Antony Hegarty), styled as ANOHNI, is a British singer, songwriter, and visual artist based in New York City and Ireland. She has presented solo work and as the lead singer of the band Anohni and the Johnsons, formerly known as Antony and the Johnsons. She started her musical career performing with an ensemble of New York musicians as Antony and the Johnsons. Their self-titled first album was released in 2000 on David Tibet's label Durtro. Their second album, I Am a Bird Now (2005), was a commercial and critical success, earning her the Mercury Music Prize. In 2016, Anohni became the first openly transgender performer nominated for an Academy Award; she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, along with J. Ralph, for the song "Manta Ray" in the film Racing Extinction. Her debut solo album, Hopelessness, was released in May 2016 to wide critical acclaim, including another nomination for the Mercury Music Prize and a Brit Award. In 2023, as Anohni and the Johnsons, the artist released her sixth album, My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross.
Shares chamber pop, art pop, baroque pop (subgenres); orchestral arrangement, hi fi, layered dense (production style)
Shares art pop, chamber pop (subgenres); solitude, urban night, midnight (atmosphere)
Shares art pop, chamber pop, baroque pop (subgenres); solitude, cathedral, urban night (atmosphere)
Shares art pop, chamber pop, baroque pop (subgenres); layered dense, digital clarity, orchestral arrangement (production style)
Shares art pop, chamber pop, soul (subgenres); orchestral arrangement, layered dense, digital clarity (production style)
Shares art pop, chamber pop, baroque pop (subgenres); vulnerable, melancholic, haunting (moods)
Shares art pop, chamber pop (subgenres); vulnerable, haunting, melancholic (moods)
Shares baroque pop, cello, cathedral, forest (subgenre)
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