Anohni And The Johnsons: My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross (CD)

My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross, AnohniI’s sixth studio album, expresses a world view by shape-shifting through a broad range of subject matter. Through a personal lens, Anohni addresses loss of loved ones, inequality, alienation, acceptance, cruelty, ecocide, devastation wrought by Abrahamic theologies, Future Feminism, and the possibility that we might yet transform our ways of thinking, our spiritual ideas, our societal structures, and our relationships with the rest of nature.

On her first full album since 2016’s Hopelessness, she explains the creative process was painstaking, yet also inspired, joyful, and intimate, a renewal and a renaming of her response to the world as she sees it. A portrait of legendary human rights activist Marsha P. Johnson taken by Alvin Baltrop features on the cover, reflecting a 25-year relationship with the memory of Johnson that Anohni has held space for in the presentation of her own work. 

1. It Must Change
   
2. Go Ahead
   
3. Sliver Of Ice
   
4. Can’t
   
5. Scapegoat
   
6. It’s My Fault
   
7. Rest
   
8. There Wasn’t Enough
   
9. Why Am I Alive Now
   
10. You Be Free