Joy Oladokun - Hope is a Heavy Thing
Bee Delores reviews Hope Is a Heavy Thing, the urgent new album from Joy Oladokun. "It's long overdue to actually listen to Black women about brutal reality," writes Dolores.
Album Reviews
Editor's Picks 10/2: Jude Brothers, The Male Pattern, Katie Pruitt
Every week, Rainbow Rodeo editor Rachel Cholst picks the three best queer country albums of the week. This week features sumptuous Appalachian explorations, tragicomic patriarchal characters, and a tidy little package to describe all of our messiness.
Fiver Trois -- Cleaning House
Fiver Trois spans the distance between jazz, country, and prog on the singular album Cleaning House -- showing vision that the band fearlessly explores, writes Richard Marcus
Jake Blount - Single-Footing Horse
Jake Blount closes out a decade and a half in traditional string music with a wily, political, and seductive tribute to the work and mentors who have helped shaped him, writes Bee Delores
Mary Gauthier -- Reckoning
Mary Gauthier's new album reckoning is a lived-in, compassionate collection of songwriting a la Bruce's Nebraska, writes Kate Fishman.
Lawrence Rothman -- Here Lies Love/Sawdust to Stardust
Lawrence Rothman caps off their country music trilogy with Here Lies Love / Stardust to Sawdust, an intimate and deeply relatable exploration of Rothman's full talents as they continue to explore themself.
Maddie Zahm -- Everything All the Time
Arend Lee Jessurun reviews Everything All the Time -- the stunning new queer exvangelical album from Maddie Zahm, which teaches us that living is an art, not a dogma.