Anthony Family — Anthony Anzaldo's (Ceremony’s founding guitarist of 20 years) radiant new project, where he drives the train — is a left turn for an artist known for them. “What you’re going to hear will be unfamiliar to you at first, if you are a fan of the other things I do,” he says. 

Over the years, Ceremony have explored hardcore, post-punk, indie rock, new wave, and beyond. For Anzaldo, in 2024, highly personal, emotionally complex sophisti-pop is the order of the day. In tracing Anthony Family’s DNA, if you were to point to Howard Jones, Prefab Sprout, or Yazoo, you’d be on the right track. Ditto the Blue Nile, Scritti Politti — or his all-time hero, Prince.

Anzaldo has been writing Anthony Family for years. “The process for every tune is different; getting to the destination is always different.” And it’s that destination that matters: the station of the human heart, and Anzaldo’s beats deeper than most. 

Welcome, and meet the family.