A contender for the most adorable album cover of the year: Andrew Sa on the cover of his debut album, American Rough. “What Sa so gracefully and deliciously accomplishes here and across American Rough is a confident and shameless subversion of the heternormative tradition of mid-century country-pop and songbird soul – horniness is nothing new to these genres, but through the mirrored glint of gay male desire, Sa invites a reimagining of the kind of intimacy worth singing about..a story of queer love that other people can see themselves in and not immediately deny because of its queerness.”