Disco Hospital Books & Records, the independent imprint based in Toronto, is pleased to announce the release of Heads On Platters (Undetectable III). This LP is published in an edition of 200; with jacket, centre labels, and insert featuring artwork by Dutes Miller (Chicago, USA).
Heads On Platters is the third in a series of three vinyl LPs that respond to issues of queer pleasure and pandemic, a project funded by the Canada Council for the Arts. The series, Undetectable: Queer Pleasure and Pandemic, explores and listens to queer sexualities, chemsex practices, public sex, and emerging queer cultural production models that respond to increasing global homophobia, transphobia, drag-phobia, violence, and silencing. True resistance is loud, and is rarely sober.
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Andrew Zealley: Heads On Platters (Undetectable III), Disco Hospital Books & Records, PNPLP-06, 33 rpm black vinyl LP.
Disco Hospital Books & Records, the independent imprint based in Toronto, is pleased to announce the release of Heads On Platters (Undetectable III).
This LP is published in an edition of 200; with jacket, centre labels, and insert featuring artwork by Dutes Miller (Chicago, USA).
Heads On Platters is the third in a series of three vinyl LPs that respond to issues of queer pleasure and pandemic, a project funded by the Canada Council for the Arts. The series, Undetectable: Queer Pleasure and Pandemic, explores and listens to queer sexualities, chemsex practices, public sex, and emerging queer cultural production models that respond to increasing global homophobia, transphobia, drag-phobia, violence, and silencing.
True resistance is loud, and is rarely sober.
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released January 1, 2024
Produced by House of Intergenerational, and mastered by Stefan Betke (Pole), Heads On Platters features voices that speak critically to the subject(s) at hand.
Mikiki (art, activist, and gay men’s sexual health worker), takes a leading role in the recording and speaks candidly and explicitly about sex, substance use, and mental health.
Graeme Lamb (activist, organizer, and writer), responds to issues of queer anonymous sexual practices, bathhouse cultures, and app cruising cultures.
Maticus Adams (artist and activist) talks briefly about the ways methamphetamine takes root in users.
Sonically, the LP opens with the staid, overture-esque “Meth Ascending” before transitioning into the extended meditative float of “Platters On Heads.” On the B-side, “The Law of Disclosures” shudders under a twisted synth-horn motif; “This This This (Not This This This)” lets loose with a dynamic rhythm section that supports Lamb’s diatribe on the benefits of anonymous sex in bathhouse darkrooms and the manipulative tendencies inherent in cruising apps like Grindr; “Lights Out” draws the LP to a close with vital beats, a bouncing bass station line, and a ghostly chorus of disco dancers.
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