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One day when he was a child in New York City Anton put his ear against a speaker in a dark apartment on the west side and went into a trance. He had a long dream. When he woke up twenty years later his heart was permanently broken, but in a good way. Trying to make a movie out of the turbulence in his mind, he found himself writing songs instead, songs blending Roxy Music's weird romance, The Kinks' music-hall pop, John Lennon's plangent sincerity, Radiohead's art-prog, and a psychoanalyst trying to seduce a spelling bee champion. Over the past year Sword's songs have been being brought to full pop power by his band The We Ours, which showcases thrilling drummer Kristin Mueller of Lucinda Black Bear and great additional vocals by guitarist Kristofer Widholm and bassist Jessica Hallman. A female rhythm section fronted by two guy singers: that's a welcome change. The past year found Anton Sword & The We Ours touring the northeast USA and Europe several times. In 2009 Anton will release several EPs, recorded at NYC's Godelstring and ValveTone studios, and in Berlin's Candybomber studio with Ingo Krauss (formerly of Conny Plank's Cologne studio). May will see the release of the first, The We Ours EP I Like Your Mind. Sword's 2008 CD, A Sentimental Education, has been described by listeners in the US and Europe as Lush, Dreamy, Mesmerizing, Groovy, Catchy, and Gorgeous. It's available at Amazon, iTunes, etc. "Anton Sword is good at invoking time and place in his music. A Sentimental Education is dark and scintillating and full of texture imbued with an anachronistic melancholy. Anton Sword is a storyteller with an artist's ear for music, constructing vast musical landscapes against which his bard's tales are told. Many of the songs here segue one into the other almost like an epic tale made of smaller stories. The overall effect is very entertaining yet mellow." --Wildy's World Music Blog "Should you have forgotten what a beautiful ballad is or what a finely crafted good pop song sounds like, Anton Sword has A Sentimental Education ready for you: 11 wonderfully produced songs of melancholy, love and the fleetingness of human existence...dark but tender." --Roman Elsener, in The Roman Games Diary Blog

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