Enigmatic gay country star Orville Peck released his debut album Pony last year. Peck famously wears a showy, fringed mask in all of his public appearances. Sometimes it’s glittery and bedazzled; sometimes it’s made of leather, and paired with the right pair of chaps, works almost like a kink object. He refuses to say why,... Continue Reading →
Kylie Says Something – Single Review: Say Something by Kylie Minogue ★★★★
At first blush, a shimmery new Kylie Minogue dance anthem would seem wasted during a pandemic in which we are unable to dance together or even get together. Ten years ago she debuted All the Lovers with a video featuring a writhing human pyramid that epically exaggerated a carefree socializing we just can't imagine right here,... Continue Reading →
Sexual Healing – Album Review: Jessie Ware’s What’s Your Pleasure? ★★★★★
This is THAT rare release. And exactly what we need right now. A lightning-in-a-bottle-powered glitter ball just waiting to quicken a lonely dance lover’s pulse. This is a conceptual disco diva album that grabs you immediately by the brain, the feet and some popular parts in between. Spotlight sets the stage with a slinky dip into... Continue Reading →
Album review: Notes On A Conditional Form by The 1975 ★★★
My boyfriend has been briefed; he’ll be eating alone tonight whilst I scoff Notes On A Conditional Form, a whopping 22 tracks, in the bedroom. He retreats with a wry smile, well-accustomed to these rituals. Listening to The 1975 threatens to conjure my seventeen-year-old self. They’re a band who try on genres like clothes, playfight... Continue Reading →
Album Review: modern anxiety by Josef Salvat ★★★★★
I was a few weeks late discovering Australian pop singer Josef Salvat's sophomore album modern anxiety, which dropped on May 15th. While Salvat's first album Night Swim (2015) was a critical hit in the UK and Europe, it didn't make much of a splash in the US. But now, with everyone stuck at home and... Continue Reading →
Exclusive single premiere: queer electro pop artist Joel Christian’s gritty dance track Hell Raiser “this song should make you forget your fears”
Today The Queer Review exclusively premieres Hell Raiser by emerging queer electo-pop artist, Joel Christian. The energetic dance track is filled with gritty synths, heavy drops and mysterious glitches that characterise LA based Christian's niche brand of dark-pop. The first single from his debut album, releasing later this year, Hell Raiser is a dirty night club... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: pop artist VNCE on his new album Queer “I was never open & transparent about my sexuality…I felt I couldn’t live my life authentically”
LA-based pop singer/songwriter, VNCE (pronounced Vince) launches his honest, sexually charged new album Queer today, Friday May 8th. Working with his longtime collaborator Joe Pepe, pop multi-hyphenate z a c k y and fellow singer/songwriter Brooke Day, he's produced some sizzling autobiographical summer anthems about his WeHo days and nights and getting over an unrequited... Continue Reading →
Single Review: If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know) by The 1975 ★★★★★
The 1975's bombastic self-isolation anthem Is it a bird? Is it a plane? The flaming fist of a vengeful deity? Perhaps a fleet of morbidly fascinated aliens back (with space snacks) for the next episode in Earth’s tragic mini-series? Trick question. It’s pop polymorphs, The 1975, digitally descending from the cloud to bless our weary... Continue Reading →
EP Review: Isaac’s Insects by Isaac Dunbar ★★★★
It’s hard to picture Isaac Dunbar, Gen Z’s dazzling alt-pop ascendant, juxtaposed against the quaint promontory of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, but that’s exactly where he is right now, self-isolating in his family’s New England home. For context; I’ve just watched the music video for makeup drawer where every pore of Dunbar shimmers silver and, later, a tiered... Continue Reading →
Billy Porter releases stirring For What It’s Worth cover “it’s a song about unifying & coming together to make a change”
The Grammy, Emmy and Tony-winning Billy Porter has just released a soul-stirring cover of Stephen Stills’ For What It’s Worth, as performed by Buffalo Springfield. “I decided to record For What It’s Worth because I wanted to have my art and my music matter, make a difference,” Porter said. “I’ve always been a political person.... Continue Reading →