Serpentwithfeet: Grip review – glossy, lustful tribute to queer black clubland | Dance music
This isn’t Josiah Wise’s coming out album. Almost everything the American with stunning Christian-choir vocals has recorded as Serpentwithfeet is stamped with the desire lines of queer love. Yet Grip is far more lascivious and uninhibited than 2021’s love-fuddled Deacon, with a glossy, clubby feel that’s bounds away from the unearthly, recherché goth-gospel pioneered on his debut, Soil. The extroversion is because Grip soundtracks Heart of Brick, Wise’s 2023 theatre production depicting black gay nightclubs – the lands…