Jessica Winter – ‘My First Album’ review: cementing her stake in the campy queer pop game

Jessica Winter – ‘My First Album’ review: cementing her stake in the campy queer pop game

Jessica Winter, Portsmouth’s underground queer pop auteur, opens her first album as if she’s starring in a ghoulish David Bowie western – but all quickly ascends into a fit of indulgent farmyard cathedral electronica. Winter’s always been on pop’s fringe, but even accustomed listeners will find unscratched parts of their brains scratched. ‘Nirvana’ marks the beginning of this whiplashing glam-pop debut, the plainly titled ‘My First Album’, that …

Introducing Jessica Winter: A one-woman show of 80s glamour, camp spirit, and radical self-discovery - BRICKS Magazine

PHOTOGRAPHY Ella Margolin With her cleverly titled debut album – My First Album – London-based pop artist Jessica Winter is fully stepping into herself. Drawing from a childhood full of camp glamour, queer joy, and feminine power, Winter fuses 80s-inspired visuals with deeply personal storytelling to craft a world that’s entirely her own. Rooted in the influences of her mother, a glamour model in the 80s, and her uncle, a proud gay man of the sa…

Jessica Winter - 'My First Album' (Lucky Number) - God Is In The TV

There’s a delicious irony in Jessica Winter naming her full-length debut My First Album. Anyone who’s followed her arc—from Portsmouth punk rehearsals to the theatrical chaos of Pregoblin—knows this is closer to a greatest-hits of selves she’s already been. What’s new is the way she welds those fragments into a single, big letter narrative: 13 songs that chart the long, messy road between wanting to be someone and learning to be yourself. “I’m c…