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Queer Country Band Indiana Queen Returns With A Moving Visual Album

"Summon Without Sorrow" is a homoerotic journey through the religious South.

Alt-country act Indiana Queen is back with a new record, Summon Without Sorrow, a thematic visual album in the spirit of Beyonce's Lemonade.

"[Fans] have always appreciated the visual imagery of our music videos," singer Kevin Thornton told Get Out. "This time around, I wanted to take the visuals as far as I could. I decided to present the entire album as a film."

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“This is How it Goes"—one of the album's standout tracks—tells the story of growing up gay in a religious town and falling in love with another boy from church.

"There was a lot of repressed sexual tension between us. We were so afraid," said Thornton of his real-life paramour, who's now married to a woman. "The song is about looking back, remembering him, and wondering if he made it out of that hell like I did."

Country music isn't the most gay-friendly genre, though that's changing. And Thornton is proud to lead the march forward.

“We are starting to get lots of messages,” he told NewNowNext. “Gay people, out there telling us how much it means to them to see themselves represented in country music.”

Watch the stunning visual album Summon without Sorrow in its entirety below.

h/t: Accidental Bear

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