Transgender Dysphoria Blues, Against Me!’s sixth album, is a concept album about a woman trapped in the body of a man, written very clearly from the perspective of someone who has had to face this situation in real life.
All in Review
What do you get that distant cousin or childhood friend with whom you have nothing in common except memories? Smelly candles? No. It's coffee, the correct answer to many questions, the best solution to a range of dilemmas.
On stage a thin, white shawl lifts, catches the autumnal light in its gauzy weave. Grey suggestions of limbs shift beneath the fabric. The voice emanating from shroud belies the scene, pulsing through the reverb. Her long, dark frame emerges from the cloth and merges with the shadows. The audience bends as the thrumming gusts of bass pick up intensity, and her face slips from beneath the shawl, a still oval with two watchful smudges. Chelsea Wolfe's voice twists across and between notes with sinuous power.
