Rainbow Ruckus 3/4: Lydia Loveless, Liv Greene, Lily Rose, and More!
This week's queer country playlist features toxic exes, theological musings, and more twang than you can shake a stick at.
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- First up is a song that's only available on Bandcamp – Lydia Loveless' "Accolades." Loveless appears to be back in the studio with their best collaborators: George Hondroulis and John Calvin Abney. "Accolades" is also a return to twang for Loveless, who's been following their unique voice across the pop spectrum. "Accolades" is a song of simpler times and frustrated hopes – squarely in Loveless' oeuvre.
- Liv Greene made us cry on her beautiful new album Deep Feeler. With this alternate version of "Flowers (party version)" – an apt title – Greene brings in a twangier, country feel to a song whose album cut is as fragile as it is wry. This time around, the country-fied version imbues the fresh pain of breakups with that rueful headshake that keeps us coming back for more.
- "Your God (God's Dick)," by contrast, is an acidly uproarious new track from Laura Jane Grace in the Trauma Tropes. You're gonna have to listen to this one with headphones for the full effect, but this obscene arena-worthy folk punk gospel is uproarious.
- Lily Rose serves up another pop country banger on "I Know What I Want You." If there was ever a kind but pithy way to kick your toxic ex to the curb, this would be it. Rose delivers a rapid-fire hick hop line while the song's sinuous guitar solo places this firmly in country territory.
- Quirky trans indie rock duo Um, Jennifer think they saw you on "Delancey," but it would be too weird to come up to you, right? This is a bouncy pop punk song of ships passing in the night while capturing the bubbling frenetic energy of the Lower East Side and its legendary garage rock scene.
