Various - Strong Love: Songs Of Gay Liberation 1972-81Originally released on CD in 2012, Chapters landmark compilation of 70s gay musical pioneers gets a vinyl release for the first time ever and on pink vinyl to boot! Strong Love explores the first wave of openly gay songwriting that emerged after New York's Stonewall Riots kickstarted the modern gay rights movement in 1969. It took just a few years for the defiant chanting and interlocked arms of early 70s pride marches to reverberate onto record, and

Framing Okereke's intensely personal songwriting within the context of dance culture

With sounds that are unsettlingly familiar and uniquely his own

180-gram black vinyl

stripped down and acoustic

When Jessica‰۪s playful nature bubbles up

"was improvised pretty much fully-formed

composed film scores

Raymonde (bass

Phil Palmer

Recorded in places varying from artists' homes

with the band's ripping power more than matched by Dave Grohl's fascinating examinations of pain and divorce

Vinyl versions of the album are available as standard and deluxe heavyweight vinyl ltd to one pressing