antony and the johnsons well cardinal is antony's voice seems to channel nina simone and bryan ferry and he has many celebrity admirers such as philip glass marc almond lou reed and the guest vocalists on i am a bird now boy george rufus wainwright and devendra banhart an opinion yes of course it is but people like you won't admit anything to the contrary the noise is reminiscent of nina and bryan and has admirers is all that is allowed they can say it's a lovely noise no one else is allowed to say it's not explain the rationale behind your thinking or do you think at all go and listen to the rubbish cringeworthy it is