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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
