The cover of The Crying Light, the third album by Antony and the Johnsons, is strikingly similar to that of its predecessor, 2005's highly-lauded I Am a Bird Now. The latter presented a stark black-and-white shot of transvestite performer Candy Darling lying on her hospital deathbed; this time, we get an even starker image of Japanese Butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno, a hero of bandleader Antony Hegarty since he first spotted her on a poster while studying in France as a teenager.

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As Ohno leans back, wrinkled and seemingly near death himself, the flower in his hair sits in the same position as the bright blooms that hover above Darling.But it's the differences between these shots that say the most about The Crying Light. Much of what the Darling image represents- gender identity, performance art, downtown New York circa Andy Warhol's Factory- is reflected in.I Am A Bird Now'.s stylistic range, as well as its use of guest artists who embody those subjects, like Lou Reed and Boy George. The symbolism of the Ohno picture is simpler. The dancer, cited by Hegarty as his role model for 'getting older as an artist,' is now 102 and can no longer move or speak; he's been cast into a limbo between life and death. 'He really practiced his form until he couldn't move,' Hegarty told The Wire magazine in December.

'And then he kept taking the right steps inside himself.' On The Crying Light, Hegarty is fascinated with those steps- the transitions and overlaps between birth and life, life and death, this world and the next. 'From your skin I am born again,' he sings in 'One Dove', an ode to a bird from 'the other side' that comes to 'bring me some peace.' Later, 'Aeon' depicts eternity as a baby boy born to take care of his father, as time melts generations together.

Similar concepts dot every song. With deft touch, Hegarty repeatedly uses words like 'womb,' 'grave,' and 'light,' and he returns to primal metaphors- water as life, dust as death, the earth as a place of both burial and growth. 'I'm only a child/ Born upon a grave,' he insists in 'Kiss My Name', nearly encapsulating the entire album in one potent declarative.Though easier to summarize, these ideas are no less complex than those on I Am A Bird Now. In fact, they're larger and more universal than that album's New York-tinted perspective. But they have also inspired Hegarty to craft simpler, subtler songs. Simultaneously sparse and rich, The Crying Light mines maximum intensity from a relatively minimal mix of basic melodies, pithy lyrics, and understated arrangements. It may be difficult to believe that an album crediting four arrangers and upwards of two dozen musicians could sound minimal.

But the way Hegarty selects their contributions is more about precision than volume, more about carefully-chosen moments than multiple voices. Take the dark cello that closes 'Her Eyes Are Underneath the Ground', the soft horn flourish in the middle of 'Epilepsy Is Dancing', the fingersnap-like clicks at the end of 'The Crying Light'. These elements hint at fuller, busier versions of these songs. Motor heavy truck service keygen for mac. Maybe Hegarty did record more fleshed-out takes and then erased portions, letting their echoes float in the limbo that he sings about. Whatever his process, Hegarty's use of orchestration for accent and emphasis creates undeniable power, the kind that increased sonic density likely would have lacked.Of course, lots of power also comes from Hegarty's voice. What's most impressive about his singing isn't its range- though his octave-gliding trill remains spellbinding- but the way he consistently picks the right tone at the right time. On 'Epilepsy Is Dancing', his hum crests into a shivery warble just as the song veers into surreal imagery.

He flips the trick on 'Daylight and the Sun,' pulling back during the most plaintive lines ('Now I cry for daylight'), then purring fluidly through an unexpected epilogue. Most striking is 'Dust and Water,' a droning meditiation in which his lullaby tones seem sung in a foreign language, despite the plain English found on the lyric sheet.The Crying Light ends with 'Everglade', one of the tracks Hegarty co-arranged with classical composer Nico Muhly. Filled with lilting flutes, rising strings, and operatic croon, it might be the most overtly dramatic track in the Johnsons' oeuvre, like a rescued score from some lost musical. 'When I'm peeping in a parlour of trees/ And the leaves are winking all around,' he sings, 'I'm home,' my heart sobs in my veins.' That may read ultra-drippy, but on record it sounds decidedly profound- a fully-earned approach to the precipice of the other world Hegarty has pondered for 40 fascinating minutes. In fact, the song's redemptive tone inspires similarly wild thoughts about the future.

If Hegarty can craft an album this stunning about the path to paradise, just imagine how great the next one could sound, once he's actually there.

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