Anohni Announces New Album, Hopelessness

Anohni announces New Album, Hopelessness,
Out May 6th on Rough Trade & Secretly Canadian;
Presents “Drone Bomb Me” Single
+ Video starring Naomi Campbell

“Anohni has arrived at the high table of electronic nowness. She has moved from the lush pastoral piano modern compositional landscape framing her voice into a more immediate world of dance-mutated electronica. A lyrical content that is deadly serious, the words and phrases of someone struggling to come to terms with the violence and shattering armaments of the human race violating and obliterating itself. Wondering about complicity and one’s place on this poisoned planet. Was pop ever so revelatory or so profound?”

-- Geoff Travis, London 2016

ANOHNI, the singer of Antony and the Johnsons, announces the release of her new album, HOPELESSNESS, out May 6th on Rough Trade / Secretly Canadian. A collaboration with Oneohtrix Point Never and Hudson Mohawke,HOPELESSNESS is a dance record with soulful vocals and lyrics addressing subjects including surveillance, drone warfare and ecocide. The album seeks to disrupt assumptions about popular music through the collision of electronic sound and highly politicized lyrics.

To coincide with the Climate Conference in Paris last December, ANOHNI released her debut single, “4 Degrees”. The Guardian called it “Hugely affecting… instantly earns its place in the pantheon of great musical protests.”

Stream ANOHNI’s “4 DEGREES” – https://open.spotify.com/track/4E1OG7S9sDDlGLfobTmCoV

Listen to ANOHNI’s “Drone Bomb Me” : https://anohni.lnk.to/dronebombme

“'Drone Bomb Me' is the beautiful yet brutal second single from HOPELESSNESS. As described by ANOHNI, “’Drone Bomb Me’ is a love song written from the perspective of a young girl in Afghanistan whose family has been executed by unmanned U.S. drones. She dreams of being annihilated.” The powerful video for “Drone Bomb Me” is directed by Nail and features an astonishing performance by Naomi Campbell. Directed by Nabil, art directed and styled byRiccardo Tisci for Givenchy.
Watch ANOHNI’s “Drone Bomb Me” – HERE or HERE on Apple Music

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