✨Model/Actriz is making a case for noise in the queer pop canon — but just how well are they doing it? In today’s newsletter, @maxxfreedman11.bsky.social writes about the band’s good but flawed new album, ‘Pirouette.’ Link in bio to read‼️

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‼️NEW POST: St. Vincent’s ‘All Born Screaming’ is a great album — a fundamentally St. Vincent album — and yet, a year after its release, people seem to forget it exists. Read today’s newsletter to learn why @maxxfreedman11.bsky.social thinks this is so:✨

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‼️NEW POST: You should listen to Fusilier, but maybe his past releases instead — here’s why @maxxfreedman11.bsky.social thinks ‘Ambush,’ his debut LP, underwhelms compared to his run of tremendously overlooked past singles and EPs 🌈

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‼️Lambrini Girls’ “party music for gay angry sluts” absolutely slaps, and their politics merely begin with queer liberation. Read why @maxxfreedman11.bsky.social thinks their debut album ‘Who Let the Dogs Out’ is pretty good!🌈 lavendersound.substack.com/p/this-party...

Today’s newsletter is free for all to read: What role does, or doesn’t, pop music play in our decades of collectively becoming increasingly unprepared to meaningfully rise up against fascism? Read it here: lavendersound.substack.com/p/is-pop-mus...

INSTANT REACTION: Doechii *Planned* This Post-GRAMMYs Track Drop — read @maxxfreedman11.bsky.social's thoughts on how "Nosebleeds" is just one track Doechii probably had in her arsenal to drop in the hours after the GRAMMYs: lavendersound.substack.com/p/instant-re...

‼️It’s official: Montreal electronic musician Marie Davidson is For The Girls. Learn why @maxxfreedman11.bsky.social thinks her work should be part of the LGBTQ+ music canon: lavendersound.substack.com/p/marie-davi...

✨An icon to many LGBTQ+ music listeners, Björk hit the reset button 10 years ago and we all needed it. Read why @maxxfreedman11.bsky.social thinks ‘Vulnicura’ was Björk’s first album in a decade to sound fully like her: lavendersound.substack.com/p/bjork-hit-...

✨Introducing Lavender Sound: Somehow, there’s no publication dedicated to writing about music by LGBTQ+ people (ok, and the pop girlies too), with the writing itself by & for LGBTQ+ people. Lavender Sound, launching today, will be that publication — head to lavendersound.substack.com to subscribe.