I vividly remember the day Troye Sivan came out as gay to his thousands of YouTube subscribers in a vlog. His Aug. Bloom is an incredibly varied body of work with upbeat, heavily-produced bops and slow, crooning ballads. He sings about queer love in a casual way, as queer artists rightfully should. The songs detail his love stories and casual sexual encounters in a poetic, universally resonant manner typical of pop music, but hearing it all from a gay perspective is breath of fresh air. Instead, he opts to get deeply personal , sharing the dark side of his romantic life and the lightheartedness of exploring the dating world as an early something.
Guided by a simplistic piano melody, Sivan details the sad parts of a loving relationship. He creates powerful pop anthems without getting too cookie-cutter. The album is wonderfully composed in that each fast-paced track is paired with a low-key ballad.
He took the expectations he set for himself with his debut, Blue Neighborhood , and smashed them with a super queer hammer. There are songs for crying, songs for dancing, and songs to scream in the car with the windows rolled down.
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