Blog: Beats Per Minute

Only the first two tracks on Antony and the Johnsons’ new live album, Cut the World , bear completely new material. The opening title track, “Cut the World,” was written as part of the score for stage production of The Life and Death of Marina Abramović . It’s enormously dramatic (and deeper that what its more literal video treatment may suggest), and it sets the tone for the rest of what is a pure, cinematic performance. But the second track, “Future Feminism,” is without music. Rather, in these seven-and-a-half minutes of sincere monologue [...]