SHORTLIST 2020
Comfort
— Not Passing
- Label: Self-released
- Released: 14 June 2019
Comfort
Comfort are a duo from Glasgow, Scotland who make genre defying protest music for the modern age. Comprising of siblings Natalie (she/her) on vocals/electronics and Sean (He/Him) on drums, they make music which is minimal in construction yet maximal in energy. Thundering drums give perpetual momentum to visceral synths as the vocals punctuate each track with a relentless urgency. Comfort's music takes strength from vulnerability and delivers joy from rage, presenting a queer critique of societal norms. Unashamed, direct, no nonsense and brutally honest.
Not Passing
NOT PASSING
All standards are falsehoods
I am no less a woman than a cis-gendered runway model
Prejudices are not opinions
There is no debate
Let them think i look like a man
Let them think I am mentally deluded
I am cultivating in the cracks of their disgust
I have nothing to live for but myself
My womanhood needs no permission
This record is for the people who don't make it
Who don't feel safe enough to live it
Who will be
Who are
We deserve our beauty
And the world will catch up to us