No Jack Swing

With a well-established career in music group projects and as an individual writer in general already to his credit, Brontez Purnell released his first full solo effort in 2023 with one of the better punning titles around. At once a collage of sonic celebration in many different modes from rampant disco party to ruminative lo-fi to full-throated gospel, all underpinned by a joyful variety of beats, and a sharply entertaining lyrical portrait of queer Black life, love and existence conveyed through Purnell’s easy-going drawl, No Jack Swing is a striking universe in miniature.