If you're not listening to Quick Fix, you're only getting half the story – and we've got the full download on the lead single, "Tenderoni", from Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke's first solo album The Boxer.

Released ten (!?) years ago, Kele's bold new musical direction and image was in stark contrast to that curated over Bloc Party's meteroic rise to fame and adoration in British indie. Change was now underfoot, all clues point toward that – but why? What had shifted for Kele?

Quick Fix is Aural Fixation's stickier and sweeter little sister, our run of shorter episodes allowing us to dissect a song, rather than an album, which means something to us as queer music fans. Email your suggestions for new episodes over to [email protected], and if you're not already, follow us on Facebook, like us on Instagram, and leave us a rating/review. 

Over 30 years ago, Beverly Glenn-Copeland released Keyboard Fantasies, a six track album that sold very few copies. It wasn’t until a Japanese music stan discovered the album in 2015 and shared it amongst his fellow audiophiles that it was lauded as a new-age, synthesised masterpiece. Before long, a number of record labels were fighting to sign Copeland, now in his seventies.

From there the fascinating details of Glenn’s life began to surface – such as his life living in relative solitude with his wife in the wilderness; or his 25 years spent entertaining children on Canadian kid’s TV show Mr Dressup; or the fact that he happens to be transgender.

Keyboard Fantasies is unlike any album we’ve discussed on Aural Fixation before, so we definitely recommend listening to it before jumping into the ep. We also mention a couple of interviews in the episode which you can check out here: 

• Beverly Glenn-Copeland: The Unifying Power of Music by Red Bull Academy
• Interview with Dev Hynes (Blood Orange) for Talkhouse

As we spoke about in the episode, Glenn’s music has gone unheard for so many years and he had a long overdue tour scheduled for 2020, which will sadly not be going ahead. If you’d like to show your support to Glenn via alternative means then you can do by visiting his Patreon here.

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Heaven is, in fact, a Quick Fix on Earth, as well as four minutes of utter pop excellence performed by iconic ally Belinda Carlise. Join us for an exploration of this A grade masterpiece, including but not limited to, topics such as why this song is so bloody good, why this song is particularly gay, and why “San Junipero” is the greatest episode of Black Mirror ever.
 
If you’ve made it this far into the bio, and you’re gay and/or a millenial, then you’ll likely know precisely what we’re talking about, but if not – do yourself a favour, do Charlie Brooker a favour, do Belinda bloody Carlisle a favour and watch said episode on Netflix before sliding into our take on the eighties electro neon symphony of euphoric boppery.
 
Actually, you know what, listen to the song right before you listen to any Quick Fix. That way you’ll be riding that iconic queer song wave with us. Follow us on Facebook, like us on Instagram, and email us on email.

What have I done to deserve this? What are we going to do about the rich? I don’t know what you want but I can’t give it to you – musings we should all be considering, or Pet Shop Boys song titles? Both!
 
We’re well into Cycle 4, and for a supposed queer music podcast we took our sweet time getting to this iconic duo. Nevertheless, here we are with the PSBs, an act who have shaped many of the artists we know and love, queer or not, and continue to pump out their own unique brand of pop to this today.
 
This episode, we catch them still cruising through their ‘Imperial Phase’ with their 1990 masterpiece, Behaviour. Released after three consecutive commercial successes, Behaviour was their first chart blip but has stood the test of time as Pet Shop Boy excellence – glorious pop medleys paired alongside vivid storytelling, laced with biting wit.

We continue to record remotely, separated by 600 kilometres no less, so bear with us on any technical bumps, but otherwise, we hope you enjoy. Follow us on Facebook, like us on Instagram, email us on email and Spotify us on the companion playlist.

Few break-up tracks capture the boppery, struttery and sheer i’m-so-over-you-ery found soaked throughout Song 4 Mutya, our next selection for Aural Fixation's Quick Fix.

Conceived by UK electronica duo Groove Armada, the song was originally meant for Estelle before being handed to ex-Sugababe (and current hun) Mutya Buena shortly after she departed the band. We couldn’t imagine it in anyone else’s hands; Buena’s chocolatey vocals provided us with the definitive heartbreak anthem of summer 2007.

Join us, won’t you, as we wax quick on what The Guardian dubbed “the finest pop song since Rihanna's Umbrella.”

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As we’re sure you’re aware, recent developments surrounding Madame Rona and government mandates regarding social distancing mean that for the foreseeable future, Drew and Andy won't be able to record Aural Fixation in the same room as one another for a while. 

While we play around with ways in which we can record our episodes remotely, we wanted to share our first ever experiment with you – Episode Zero. Recorded in October 2018, this is the pilot episode of Aural Fixation – just two boys, a laptop and one burning question: do we have what it takes to become podcast sheroes?

Turns out, we did. Well... kinda. While the sound quality will send you further west than Kim and Kanye at a Best Western in Weston-Super-Mare, our discussion of the Spice Girls, Alanis Morissette and a whole host of AF favourites will give you a sneak peak into the origin of Aural Fixation.

Stay safe, be kind, and as always we hope you enjoy listening. Follow us on Facebook, like us on Instagram or email us on email. And as always don't forget to check out our Spotify companion playlist!

In the grand tradition of reality TV show companion spin-offs broadcast on D-grade companion TV channels, we're keeping the flame burning at Aural Fixation with Quick Fix: Shorter episodes focusing on a song, rather than an album, which left a similar impact on our queer selves.
 
We're kicking off with a look at the "finest all-female collaboration between 1988 and 2018" (a big call from Entertainment Weekly), the 2001 cover of "Lady Marmalade" by Christina Aguilera, P!nk, Lil' Kim and Mya. We explore this stratospheric meeting of the minds between late 90s/early 00s icons, and Mya, with short stops at Xtina's journey from Mulan to Moulin (Rouge), Drew's own cover of "Lady Marmalade", and Andy's pre-pubescent slut dropping.

Quick Fix episodes will appear sporadically among our regular album programming, so please do let us know what you think, and which tracks you think we should stop the presses and discuss immediately.

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The world continues to get more topsy turvy, but it also continues to spin, so therefore you have a brand new episode of Aural Fixation. We're kicking off with an artist who, quite frankly we cannot believe we haven't tackled sooner! Hang on – have we done Robyn before?
 
As you can imagine with three EPs and a lot of heartbreak to get through, it's a bumper episode indeed, which we hope provides a glimpse of escapism (if that be what you're seeking). Andy gets emotional about Candi Staton's life of regrets, Drew muses on a past life when he could actually walk around London listening to Robyn, and we both make a couple of jokes which haven't really aged well in the last three weeks – you just gotta laugh!

This was the final episode Drew and Andy recorded together in Sydney for the forseeable future, but we're working on ways to keep bringing the fix to you aurally, so stay, quite literally, tuned.
 
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We can't lie – these are mysterious times. Everything feels a little bizarre and confusing at the moment, but something you can rely on is your fortnightly dose of unbridled queer joy from Drew and Andy. To wrap up our third (third!) season (cycle?), the boys once again take a deep dive into the DMs to provide their answers to your questions.

This ep is pepped with conjecture on Gaga's upcoming Chromatica (save us Mother Monster), discourse on Whitney's bisexuality (RIP our Queen of the Night) and even questions the queerness of hettie god Harry Styles AND his hettie forefather, Robbie Williams.

Be safe, be kind, be understanding, and – always, always – be unequivocally, unapologetically you. We love you all, and we'll figure this thing out together.

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Have you ever felt like you’re ever-so-slightly less-than? Do you ever get the sense that you’re living in someone else’s shadow? Have you, too, experienced that niggling sensation that there is somebody else – somebody more successful than you, more recognised, more universally revered – consistently beating you to the punch? OF COURSE YOU DO! You’re queer for christ sake, those feelings of inadequacy are literally engrained in us during childhood because of the systemic patriarchal dictatorship we’re born into!
 
Aaaanyway, the silver lining that comes along with the feeling of never being quite good enough is that we get to identify with icons such as the legendary Miss Dannii Minogue. Persistently eclipsed by the dazzling fluorescence of her sister, the other Minogue has always struck a chord with members of the queer community due to her resillience and penchant for a filthy dancefloor banger.

Neon Nights is her magnum opus. Fresh from the success of solo release "Who Do You Love Now?", Dannii worked with a swathe of dance producers to create an album that epitomises turn-of-the-century clubbing. Reminiscent of her fellow Class of 2003 alumni Stonebridge, and Angel City, Neon Nights boasts modern classics like "Put the Needle on It', "I Begin to Wonder" and "Don't Wanna Lose This Feeling". But how does the rest of the album stand up over 15 years later?

It seems impossible to squeeze any more iconnery into one episode but somehow we've managed it, because this fortnight the boys are joined by bona fide pop prince Tom Aspaul. Known for collaborations with Viceroy and Aeble, and his I.C.O.N.I.C. cover of Brandy's "Full Moon", Tom pulled up a mic to discuss what Dannii means to him, and life as an out queer artist.

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