“SOMETHING characterises my work over and over again,” says Anohni. “There’s often an eight to 10-year gestation period between composition and release.” That unhurried arc between thought and expression might not apply to her crackling new album, the spontaneous soul stylings of My Back Was A Bridge For You, but over 25 years releasing music, the Britishborn, New York-formed transgender artist has very carefully curated a body of work of extreme beauty, vulnerability and unsparing emotion. Born in Chichester, replanted to the Netherlands and then California, she moved to New York in the early ’90s to study experimental theatre. There, as part of the avant-garde collective Blacklips, she started singing songs to backing tracks in nightclubs before forming the ensemble The Johnsons. Since then, fostering close associations with the likes of Lou Reed, Björk and Rufus Wainwright, Anohni has proved to be one of the most consistently rewarding and surprising artists of the age. Here, for , she ruminates on her six studio albums to date.
