"What is disco, if not a call for yearning? What is gospel, if not a call for redemption? What is praise, if not a call back home? It is in the murky waters of gospel, Blackness, queerness and Black performance of 'Step II' that we find Sylvester, a legend of other worlds. The deepest corners of the late 1970s New York City club scene birthed a new genre of music that would shift the lives of queer people globally, but for a young boy from Crenshaw with an undeniable falsetto, it would be the beginning of it all."
Classics
VOL № C057 — February 2022
Step II
Sylvester
Step II is the sophomore album from disco and funk music icon Sylvester, and the VMP Classics Record of the Month for February 2022. It’s here on AAA 180g black audiophile vinyl pressed at QRP with lacquers cut from the original master tapes by Ryan Smith of Sterling Sound.
