ANDY BELL
VARIANCE III – THE TORSTEN IN QUEERETERIA REMIXES
CHERRY RED
★★★
Since first playing the semiimmortal, gender-fluid adventurer Torsten at Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2014, Andy Bell has released three albums as “The Bareback Saint”. Each LP also has a remix set, with volume three getting a new twist: Bronski Beat offer a remix of the project’s early single I Don’t Like, as well as a moody take on the recent We Hadn’t Slept For 20 Years. The album highlight is a pulsing, dramatic Matt Pop mix of the same track, though Jerome Froese’s ambient version of Lowland Lowriders runs it a close second.