Step inside! Anthony Moore's scorched-earth cabaret presents a new single today: "It's Fear." AKA & Friends’ long tones and drones, slow oscillation and scrape of strings are unto a pagan liturgy of electro-acoustic wonders, as Anthony, his image flickering like a hologram mixed with haunting Bowie-esque flashes, intones cautionary future-tales. As the sounds of the song-ritual unfurl, the earth below you grows hot. Is it the music, or...?

"The lyrics of 'It's Fear' came to me in a dream, an unremembered night-terror that triggered an immediate out-of-body weightlessness," Anthony describes. "As I spun in slo mo somersaults I saw Napoleon stripped of all his power, without his isotope he became Napoleon Fellapart."

Anthony Moore spent the early 1970s intertwined between experimental and avant-pop music, as both a solo artist, and with Slapp Happy and Henry Cow. Now, his new album On Beacon Hill pulls songs and motifs from a decades-deep catalog, filtering Anthony's music through a smoky mezzanine band. The core trio of AKA — Anthony, Keith Rodway, and Amanda Thompson — delve in with shadowy undertones, with their Friends adding trombone, double bass, violin, guitars, and electronics into the swirling mystery. AKA & Friends ensure that the notes fall around the beat and not on it, so as to define the pulse with absence. As such, time is liberated, pried free from the merciless clock; a rhythm of waves, passing through a steady-state universe of no beginnings and no endings.

Find Anthony and his band On Beacon Hill come November 21, 2025!