Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) releases his new album Glory. The album contains themes that he’s wrestled with artistically throughout his career – themes of the body and its decay, of domesticity and love, and of inescapable history and damage. The full album bio by Daniel Felsenthal can be found here. He revealed the final single earlier in the week, ‘Clean Heart’, a hopeful, swelling track that reflects on the concept...
Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) has released his newest single ‘No Front Teeth’ featuring New Zealand folk singer-songwriter Aldous Harding. The track is full of tension bolstered by time changes throughout the song and the haunting, ethereal chorus driven by Harding’s vocals. The music video is directed by Cody Critcheloe and is a fever dream-unhinged, sexually charged, hilarious and riveting, leaving the viewer questioning what is real and what is an aberration. It features Hadreas, Harding and longtime Perfume Genius band member...
Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) announces his new album Glory, coming out March 28th. Glory was produced by Blake Mills and marks the 7th studio album in his immaculate body of work. Hadreas shares the first single ‘It’s a Mirror’, and its companion music video directed by Cody Critchloe. The two artists first collaborated on the music video for Perfume Genius’ groundbreaking ‘Queen’. Watch below! “I wake up overwhelmed even when...
Perfume Genius releases his new album, Ugly Season. To coincide with the release of the album, Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) teamed with renowned visual artist Jacolby Satterwhite for a 30 minute film featuring Hadreas and the music of Ugly Season. Watch below! Ugly Season bookends a two-year period of intense creativity from Perfume Genius, which includes the full-length Set My Heart on Fire Immediately, that album’s remixed counterpart Immediately, the dance piece, and the subsequent film collaboration with Satterwhite. It is a stand-alone record, but it encompasses...
Perfume Genius announces the release of his new album, Ugly Season out on June 17th via Matador Records / Remote Control Records. To coincide with the release of the album, Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) has teamed with renowned visual artist Jacolby Satterwhite for a short film featuring Hadreas and the music of Ugly Season. Perfume Genius just kicked off his North American tour and will bring the electrifying Perfume Genius live show to Australia for the first time since 2018, sharing songs from Set My Heart On Fire Immediately (Matador...
Perfume Genius releases the IMMEDIATELY Remixes album via DSPs. IMMEDIATELY Remixes is a companion album to Perfume Genius‘ Set My Heart On Fire Immediately, remixed in original running sequence by Boy Harsher, Jenny Hval, A. G. Cook, Actress, Danny L Harle, Jaakko Eino Kaleivi, Jim-E Stack, Planningtorock, Initial Talk, Nídia, Westerman, Actress, Koreless and Katie Dey. Hadreas has said, “I’m very honored to have all these incredible musicians rework these songs. I felt personally remixed listening to their versions, hearing the spirit of my song completely transformed was...
Perfume Genius reveals A. G. Cook’s remix of his single ‘Describe’. The track is taken off the forthcoming IMMEDIATELY Remixes album which is set for release digitally on March 12 and physically on June 12. The video for ‘Describe’ was directed by Jack Wedge. Watch below. This remix follows last month’s Boy Harsher remix of ‘Your Body Changes Everything’. Read a conversation between Perfume Genius and Boy Harsher for Paper...
2020 saw the release of Set My Heart On Fire Immediately, Perfume Genius’ most celebrated album to date which topped many end of year lists and cemented him as one of his generations most innovative and essential artists. Now, he announces IMMEDIATELY Remixes, released February 19th, a companion album which sees every song on Set My Heart On Fire Immediately remixed in original running sequence by an all-star cast of...
Around the release of his critically acclaimed new album Set My Heart On Fire Immediately, Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas), announced the ‘Without You’ video competition. Hadreas asked his fans to submit music video ideas for the single, currently on the BBC 6 Music playlist, and while the competition was fierce, 3 winners have now been chosen. Each director received $1,000 to make their vision come to life as well as...
Last week Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) released his new album, Set My Heart On Fire Immediately to world-wide critical acclaim. Today he announces the ‘Without You‘ video competition. Hadreas is asking his fans to submit music video ideas for the track which is taken from the album. He has written about his inspirations for the song and encourages interested fans to submit a creative treatment for the music video they...
Perfume Genius has released Set My Heart On Fire Immediately. It was was produced by GRAMMY-winning producer Blake Mills and features contributions from musicians Jim Keltner, Pino Palladino, Matt Chamberlin and Rob Moose. It was recorded in Los Angeles, where Perfume Genius settled in 2017 with longtime partner and musical collaborator Alan Wyffels. The album explores and subverts concepts of masculinity and traditional roles, and introduces decidedly American musical influences....
Last month Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) shared the single, ‘On The Floor’, off his forthcoming new album, Set My Heart On Fire Immediately which will be released May 15. Today, he drops a remix of the track from Tokyo-based producer, Initial Talk. Initial Talk has done remixes for Rihanna, Lady Gaga and most recently Dua Lipa and is known for infusing early MTV-era 80’s sounds into his work. Here, ‘On...
Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) has shared a new single, ‘On The Floor’, from the forthcoming new album Set My Heart On Fire Immediately which will be released May 15. ‘On the Floor’ is a full-bodied, celebratory pop song that plays with the album’s themes of love, sex, memory and the body, channeling popular music mythologies while irreverently authoring its own. As with the last single ‘Describe’, Perfume Genius directed the video for ‘On The Floor’, on which he notes, “A crush...
On May 15, Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) will release his 5th studio album, Set My Heart On Fire Immediately. Listen to first single, ‘Describe‘, a track that captures a sense living in the moment through a heavy fog of grizzly distortion and tumbling slide guitars. Hadreas notes, “it started as a really somber ballad. It was very minimal and very slow. And then it turned into this beast of a...
Perfume Genius shares another track from his collaborative music project The Sun Still Burns Here. ‘Pop Song‘ is a euphoric piece of orchestral chamber pop, elevated by another stunning vocal performance by Mike Hadreas. Listen here. Watch the video for previous single ‘Eye In The Wall.’ Ahead of next Friday’s album release, Lankum share a final single ‘The Young People.’ Another taste of The Livelong Day from the Irish...
Perfume Genius has released ‘Eye in the Wall’, a new track taken from The Sun Still Burns Here, a dance and music performance collaboration with Seattle-based choreographer Kate Wallich. The evening-long piece, set to debut in October, is co-directed by Perfume Genius and Wallich and stars Perfume Genius’s Mike Hadreas alongside dance company The YC. The track is 9 minutes of celestial hypnosis and sounds unlike anything Hadreas has done before. “I think of ‘Eye in the Wall’ as a cosmic peep show,” says Hadreas. “Watching,...
