[TomC]

I gave Erotica another spin this morning and it’s a concept album if I ever heard one! It’s an album where the sum is definitely much greater than the parts. Played from beginning to end it’s just a wonderful exploration of inversions of gender and sex, as well as attitudes to sex following AIDS. The way the album is so cold and detached whilst hard-hitting is honestly haunting. Those bass lines, and the soulful beats that run through the album ugh. Someone said every young gay should give Erotica a spin. I totally agree; it’s almost an historical artefact from 90s pop culture.