QUEER COUNTRY: Putting It All On the Line

Heather Mae should be going viral for her art: she has a commanding voice and a deft pen, just as competent writing sinuous electro-pop and affirming, heartbreaking folk music. She is not shy about her politics: her music is unapologetically queer, fat-positive, and condemning of repressive Evangelical Christianity. Her double album kiss tell (the pop one) and WHAT THEY HID FROM ME (the rock one, produced by Zdan) center the deliciousness of transgressive pleasure and owning one’s past