His latest cultural output, the electronic album, No Jack Swing is an excellent patchwork of written media, gospel, 808s, and synth. This foray into electronic music after twenty-five years of being a punk musician takes that same erratic energy and transposes it into a mixtape, or ‘audio zine,’ that is as lyrically complicated and poetic as it is innately catchy. Purnell, in his early work as a zine curator of Fag School, which he still produces today, has a knack for touching a nerve. Threading the counterculture with art deemed perhaps more mainstream, or at least recognised by the ivory tower powers that be, (his novel 100 Boyfriends won him a Lambda literary award for gay fiction), Purnell has written for both the New York Times and Interview Magazine.