ISSUE 055:
11 SONGS FOR 100 BOYFRIENDS

I am a punk rocker who makes mutant R&B music––I'm also a professorial ROMANCE NOVELIST. White critics refer to me as "foul and transgressive" but like, in my head I'm Danielle Steele. That said I made you a mixtape––my taste in music mimics my taste in lovers––i.e. THIS IS AN EROTIC AND WILDLY ECLECTIC MIX.

love,

uncle bronny

Brontez Purnell is the author of 100 BOYFRIENDS, out this month from FSG Originals. Happy late Valentine's Day, Electric Eel readers –– here's the playlist, plus some further reading, below.

PJ Harvey- To Bring You My Love (Demo)

Bettye Swann - I'm Lonely For You

Die Doraus & Die Marinas- Tulpen und Narzissen

Nora Dean and Dansak- How Could You Do This

Faith Evens- You Used To Love Me

702- All I Want

Lauryn Hill- Tell Him

Lauryn Hill- Lost Myself

Aaron Frazer- Over You

GG Allin- GIMME SOME HEAD

"Music is the food of love," according to William Shakespeare...

Moreover, “love not only makes a crisis endurable; it makes it transformable” and "we need a politics of love," according to Marianne Williamson (politician and author of A Politics of Love: Handbook for a New American Revolution), apparently, AND ALSO Jennifer Nash.

So you may want to check out Talib Kweli's memoir, Vibrate Higher, also out this month from MCD. The book illuminates the upbringing and artistic success of one of the most lyrically gifted, socially conscious rappers of our time, and gives life to hip hop as a political force—one that galvanized the Movement for Black Lives, and serves a continual channel for resistance against the rising tide of white nationalism.

XOXO,

The Electric Eel <3

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ISSUE 055: 11 SONGS FOR 100 BOYFRIENDS

ISSUE 055:
11 SONGS FOR 100 BOYFRIENDS