Rainbow Ruckus 2/26: Wryn, Erin Rae, Next of Kin, and More!
This week's queer country playlist showcases righteous fury, fucking up your ex's shit, and peaceful lullabies.
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- Wryn readies us for their debut album Shapes (out on 3/28) with "Snake." While the song is an intimate, undulating folk song, its words are imbued with a righteous anger. Wryn uses the song to process interpersonal and systemic violence – it's an artful and quietly powerful call to action in the vein of Hurray For the Riff Raff.
- Next of Kin is the Rainbow Rodeo Discord's new favorite band. The Austin trio channel the Chicks with "Mean Streak." The song is gleeful and earnest, a depiction of what we all wish we could do to exes who do us wrong...and the inevitable enabling we tend to fall into.
- "Push" is an enchanting indie rocker from Rockstar & Elise. The hypnotic groove belies the painful truth of two people drifting apart.
- Nia Wyn is queer as hell and wants you to know it – with a cool retro soul groove. (Thanks, Kat, for tipping us off!) "Your Team" is about exactly what you think it is, and it says so with class.
- Erin Rae and Wilder Atkins send us off to a peaceful slumber with their lullabye-like duet "Said the Swallow to the Jay."
