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P.S. Burn This Letter Please is part of BFI Flare online film festival.

P.S. Burn This Letter Please is part of BFI Flare online film festival. A documentary film about New York City's drag community. A box of letters, held in secret for nearly 60 years, ignites a five-year exploration into a part of LGBTQ+ history that has never been told. Don't miss your chance to see this film. #dragrace #DragQueen #dragraceuk #lgbtqpride P.S. Burn This Letter

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Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams 5/5

  Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams 5/5 20 year old Arlo Parks has picked the best possible title for her debut album ‘Collapsed In Sunbeams’ is a fair description for the music contained within.  Smooth, blissed-out, shuffling pop for hazy days where rays of sunlight drape themselves on your shoulders while you sip cool drinks with friends. When we get the ok to be around each other having come out the end of our Covid-imposed exiles from each other this would be a nice soundtrack to the hugs and laughs. The songs themselves stay upbeat and airy with Arlo’s pixie vocals front and centre, wispy and pleasant she has a talent for finding the right approach to make the tracks flow gently but never dull. The music is reminiscent of Morcheeba if they were a little more cheerful and had Lily Allen poking them with a rolled-up copy of Smash Hits. ‘Collapsed In Sunbeams’ is an assured debut and a very welcome album for these troubled times, let’s hope it isn’t too long before we hear...

Thank You raised £723 for HIV Scotland

  with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans History Month UK coming to the end for this year, we are happy to say together we have raised £723 for HIV Scotland thank you for buying and sharing the posts LGBT History Month Scotland LGBT Scotland LGBT Youth Scotland Pride Edinburgh Pink Saltire #pride #pridemonth #LGBTHM21 #lgbthistorymonth

Claud - Super Monster ⅘

  Claud - Super Monster ⅘ It's a show of confidence that this is the first release on Phoebe Bridger’s new label Saddest Factory Records but it's a justified gamble. Claud Mintz has produced a solid, sure-footed debut full of charm and youth. Even though there’s a pleasant seam of naivety running through the core of the album it is offset by an assured vibe. The songs themselves are fully formed bedroom, folk/indie pop. There’s a gentle touch of shoegaze to ‘Soft Spot’ while ‘Our In-Between’ sidles up to where Ariana Grande hangs out to share a milkshake, metaphorically of course Ms. Grande herself isn’t actually on the track. A hazy, lazy comfortable hammock of an album, it never veers away too much from the blueprint which is the record’s biggest flaw. A little variation in tempo and texture would benefit the album greatly, but that’s just a grumble seeing as there much promise in these grooves and more than enough time for experimentation on future recordings. Easy on the e...

Virginia Wing - Private Life 4/5

Virginia Wing - Private Life 4/5   With the eternal, ever streaming cacophony of noise that is the almost un-sailable sea of new music in the 21st century it's more and more difficult to navigate towards music that’s a good fit for your ears. The previous model of music press, tv and record shops filtered a lot of stuff out, and of course left great music out by the margins of the popular but got you to where you needed to be. It feels like Virginia Wing would be stuck in-between these two worlds. On one hand they have the oddly left field touches that perk the ears up of any music lover and on the other there’s an frosty indifference to commerciality.  The liberal use of saxophone, an instrument that seemed to have been time-locked into the 1980’s, is folded in (“What does that mean ‘Fold in’?”) creating additional jazz angles to the electronic beats presided over by Alice Marida Richard’s cool, detached electro persona. Pop sensibilities haven’t been completely ignored, they...