Antony and the Johnsons: I Am a Bird Now (Secretly Canadian)
Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 20 March 2005
IN ALL OF pop music, only jazz singer Jimmy Scott has a voice remotely like this – ethereal and otherworldly, clenched and tremulous, a supple warble that can capture both profound emotional pain and the powerful longing to escape its hold.
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