Anohni

From Renée Rapp to Anohni – the year in queer pop

LGBTQ+ artists dominated in 2023, with club tracks, protest songs and gay anthems

Sam Levin in Los Angeles

29, Dec, 2023 @12:00 PM

Blank space: how Taylor Swift – and an aching sense of loss – dominated music in 2023

Away from Swift’s joyous, record-breaking successes, the year’s most acclaimed albums were concerned with death and absence

Alexis Petridis

22, Dec, 2023 @5:00 AM

On my radar: Anohni’s cultural highlights

The singer and artist on Marvin Gaye’s masterpiece, the shameful price of peace in Afghanistan – and why Arnold Schwarzenegger is such a hoot

Killian Fox

16, Jul, 2023 @2:00 PM

Anohni and the Johnsons: My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross review – piercing heartache

Recorded at speed, Anohni’s first album since 2016 adds a soulful swagger to poetic, cathartic rock

Michael Cragg

09, Jul, 2023 @12:00 PM

Anohni and the Johnsons: My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

The New York singer’s voice will make you shiver as it soars over simple guitar, bass and drums on her most approachable album since the mid-00s

Alexis Petridis

06, Jul, 2023 @11:00 AM

Anohni on anger, empathy and trans rights: ‘The UK is one of the most misogynist countries in the world’

The spellbinding singer returns with an album of warm, empathic folk-soul – plus a screaming lemur – to salute LGBTQ+ trailblazers, Lou Reed and more. She explains why we must embrace forgiveness if we are ever to make change

Owen Myers

19, May, 2023 @5:00 AM

Neneh Cherry: The Versions review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

Sia, Robyn and Anohni are among those interpreting Cherry’s back catalogue, but it works best when it strays from the big hits

Alexis Petridis

09, Jun, 2022 @11:00 AM

The greatest songs about the climate crisis – ranked!

As Cop26 opens in Glasgow, we provide the soundtrack, ranging from Gojira’s metal fury to gorgeous environmental paeans by Childish Gambino, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell

Alexis Petridis

28, Oct, 2021 @12:30 PM

Anohni on her new track R.N.C. 2020: 'It's me, screaming in the past, for the present'

Inspired by the fear and loathing on display at the Republican National Convention, Anohni talks us through her latest song and its uniquely unsettling video

Anohni

03, Sep, 2020 @2:02 PM

The 100 best albums of the 21st century

We polled 45 music writers to rank the definitive LPs of the 21st century so far. Read our countdown of passionate pop, electrifying rock and anthemic rap – and see if you agree

Ben Beaumont-Thomas (1-50); Laura Snapes and April Curtin (51-100)

13, Sep, 2019 @8:00 AM

Anohni on Future Feminism: 'Trump is just a distraction from the core issues'

The transgender musician is bringing her Future Feminism project to Europe, putting feminine values first – and argues that our very ecology depends on them

Hannah Ellis-Petersen

22, Aug, 2017 @12:45 PM