I was
super busy this week what with applying to grad school and learning
how to be a social animal again! This week has some awesome music,
so let’s get into it!
Album
of the
Week:
Semler
-- Preacher’s
Kid
I don’t
have Grace Baldridge’s experience of growing up queer and
Evangelical, but you don’t need to be Christian to have shame
around being queer. Before I get into the album, I do want to point
out that Baldridge pulled a Lil Nas X and listed this album under
Christian music -- after all, it is about their experience with the
religion. And it’s music. And it has since shot up to #1 of the
Apple Music Christian charts. Maybe it’s Baldridge’s gravelly
voice; maybe it’s the way they expertly intertwine their
experiences of pain, humor, awkwardness, and empowerment. Whatever
your background, this is an album that gently reminds you of the
queer shame you felt going up, that maybe you still haven’t
abandoned, and celebrates with righteous joy that we made it
through.
-
Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno -- “Biding All My Time”
(Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno)
-
Ontarians -- “No Regrets” (The Greatest Short Story
Never Told)
-
Rosie
Cima & What She Dreamed -- “Stuck” (Realm of the Warring
Gods)
-
Dirty
Bird -- “Thunder Don’t Run” (For the Time Being)
-
Mac
Leaphart -- “That Train” (Music City Joke)
-
Semler
-- “Jesus
From
Texas”
(Preacher’s
Kid)
-
The
Octobers -- “Rip Van Winkle” (Single)
-
Fee Doyle
-- “My Previous Life” (Trail Markers)
-
Lainey Wilson -- “Neon Diamonds” (Sayin’ What I’m
Thinkin’)
-
Oh
Susannah -- “Pretty Blue Eyes” (Soon the Birds)
-
Bill
Mallonee -- “Everybody Does (A Clamoring of Ghosts)
-
Adeem
the Artist -- “I Never Came Out” (Cast Iron Pansexual)
-
Clark
Naito -- “Pen Ken Pan” (Single)