Cut The World

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Recorded live over two nights at Copenhagen's DK Concert Hall with the 60-piece Danish National Chamber Orchestra, <i>Cut the World</i> is ANOHNI's most consistent album to date. It opens with a wistful song written for a Robert Wilson stage production. The album then rearranges 10 other tunes from the band's catalog until they flow as one massive sequence. "Future Feminism" is a seven-and-a-half-minute spoken-word piece with no instrumental backing that breaks the flow at the onset. However, with the "Cripple and the Starfish," the reinvention becomes clear. Woodwinds, brass, strings, and pianos combine with ANOHNI's heavenly voice to transform "You Are My Sister," "Swanlights," and "I Fell in Love with a Dead Boy" into cinematic soundscapes worthy of an Ingmar Bergman film. For "Another World," ANOHNI sings as an environmentalist watching a world gone wrong, with simple piano accompaniment. It's a career highlight, though it's only a matter of time before she, with or without her backing group, finds a way to surpass it.

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