Arts Coterie Project Journal

Progressive Hook Records · Pop Art After Midnight Pop Art After Midnight: The Stories Behind the Songs This was such a fun album to produce. Pop Art After Midnight lives in this whole retro world inspired by Pop Art, Studio 54, 90s club culture, fashion, sex, nightlife, John Waters, and a retrospective of being gay in the early 90s before the alphabet mafia started colonizing the LGB community to its nonsense today. A lot of this album came from looking backward. The songs are drawn from journal entries, old writings, poems and real-life experiences, then pulled apart, rewritten, reworked and produced into this weird little world with HiGH VOLTAGE HOMOS and Reverend Graye. Some of them are emotional. Some are observational. Some are ridiculous. Some are filthy. Basically, a fairly accurate archive. 😂 Tell Me, Tell Me When the asswipe of a partner confesses, gets caught cheating, or both. It’s that moment when they finally say the thing out loud and you’re sitting there thinking: “...

Progressive Hook Records · After Hours HiGH VOLTAGE HOMOS step into After Hours There is a particular stretch of night that begins when the club is technically over. The lights are lower. The crowd has thinned. The city has gone quiet. Somehow, you are still wide awake, still moving, and possibly having a much better time than you were three hours earlier. That is where HiGH VOLTAGE HOMOS’ new eight-track release, After Hours , lives. Moving through deep house, trip-hop, soulhouse, dub, breakbeat and drum-and-bass, After Hours keeps its focus on the quieter side of nightlife. The record is intimate, bass-forward and deliberately nocturnal, built around deep grooves, restrained vocals, negative space and the strange clarity that sometimes arrives after everybody else has gone home. The album moves between attraction, solitude, freedom, intimacy and that unmistakable feeling of finding your own private universe inside music. The tracks Closer To You is pure proximity: an in...

All The Love, HVH featuring Reverend Graye All The Love , the new single from HiGH VOLTAGE HOMOS (HVH) featuring Reverend Graye , is available now on SoundCloud. The track is the first feature single from the upcoming collaborative album Pop Art After Midnight , bringing HVH and Reverend Graye together across a project built to move freely between moods, sounds and different versions of the night. Listen now on SoundCloud: Global release: September 10, 2026 SoundCloud First At Arts Coterie Project , we have started calling this approach SoundCloud First . There are practical reasons for it. We value SoundCloud’s artist-focused payout model, and our experience with the platform has made it an important home for releasing music before it moves into the wider streaming ecosystem. There is also something about the listening culture there that feels different to us. SoundCloud still feels like a place where people arrive specifically to listen to music. There is a sense of curiosity and de...