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Perfume Genius – Reshaped is out June 8th
via Matador Records / Remote Control Records.
Praise for No Shape
Album Of The Week – Triple R
Feature Album – Edge Radio
“… his most realized album yet, a tender and transcendental protest record of love and devotion.” – Pitchfork (8.8, Best New Music)
“Heartfelt, contemporary and very beautiful.” – 4 stars, Rolling Stone
“True to turbulent form, Mike Hadreas jams together moments of euphoric pop beauty with disruptive ugliness in an album of uniformly fantastic tunes.” – The Guardian
““No Shape” pushes both words and music into stranger territory, as Perfume Genius grows brasher and more inward-looking at the same time.” – NY Times
“Hadreas widens the scope of No Shape beyond hearth and home, situating its personal narratives within the pressing political conflicts of today.” – The FADER
“Perfume Genius seemingly grows wings and sails through joyous flights of fancy like Just Like Love or saccharine serenades like Every Night.” – The Music
“Hadreas isn’t afraid to lay himself bare within his songwriting – a trait that listeners will continue to find comfort in.” – Stack
Perfume Genius (aka Mike Hadreas) has released the second video from his album No Shape, which is out now on Matador Records / Remote Control Records. ‘Die 4 You’ is directed by Floria Sigismondi(David Bowie, Rihanna, Justin Timberlake) and features artwork by Rosa Verloop.
Of ‘Die 4 You’, Hadreas has said: “This is a love song with a lot of breath-control fetish language, to communicate a willingness to really give yourself to someone completely.” Watch the video via the image below.
Perfume Genius’s 2014 breakout album Too Bright— featuring seismic anthem ‘Queen’ — marked a musical and performative leap that sounds unlike anything before or since. With his new songs, Hadreas goes even further, merging church music, makeout music, R&B, art pop, krautrock, and queer soul into his take on stadium anthems, completing the journey from critically acclaimed underground hero to fully fledged pop auteur.
Of the album, Hadreas says: “I pay my rent. I’m approaching health. The things that are bothering me personally now are less clear, more confusing. I don’t think I really figured them out with these songs. There’s something freeing about how I don’t have it figured out. Unpacking little morsels, magnifying my discomfort, wading through buried harm, laughing at or digging in to the embarrassing drama of it all. I may never come out the other side but it’s invigorating to try and hopefully, ultimately helpful. I think a lot of them are about trying to be happy in the face of whatever bullshit I created for myself or how horrible everything and everyone is.”
Stream / Purchase No Shape: https://perfumegenius.
Perfume Genius ‘Die 4 You’
Perfume Genius – No Shape is out now via Matador Records / Remote Control Records.
Praise for No Shape
Feature Album – Edge Radio
“True to turbulent form, Mike Hadreas jams together moments of euphoric pop beauty with disruptive ugliness in an album of uniformly fantastic tunes.” – The Guardian
““No Shape” pushes both words and music into stranger territory, as Perfume Genius grows brasher and more inward-looking at the same time.” – NY Times
“Perfume Genius seemingly grows wings and sails through joyous flights of fancy like Just Like Love or saccharine serenades like Every Night.” – The Music
“Hadreas isn’t afraid to lay himself bare within his songwriting – a trait that listeners will continue to find comfort in.” – Stack
Perfume Genius, nom de poster-wraith of musician Mike Hadreas, has released his fourth album, No Shape via Matador Records / Remote Control Records. The album was recorded in Los Angeles, produced by Blake Mills, mixed by Shawn Everett. The video for the first single, ‘Slip Away’can be seen via the image below.
Perfume Genius’s 2014 breakout album Too Bright— featuring seismic anthem ‘Queen’ — marked a musical and performative leap that sounds unlike anything before or since. With his new songs, Hadreas goes even further, merging church music, makeout music, R&B, art pop, krautrock, and queer soul into his take on stadium anthems, completing the journey from critically acclaimed underground hero to fully fledged pop auteur.
Of the album, Hadreas says: “I pay my rent. I’m approaching health. The things that are bothering me personally now are less clear, more confusing. I don’t think I really figured them out with these songs. There’s something freeing about how I don’t have it figured out. Unpacking little morsels, magnifying my discomfort, wading through buried harm, laughing at or digging in to the embarrassing drama of it all. I may never come out the other side but it’s invigorating to try and hopefully, ultimately helpful. I think a lot of them are about trying to be happy in the face of whatever bullshit I created for myself or how horrible everything and everyone is.”
In a bio for the album, writer Choire Sicha says, “God is all around actually and some of these songs are about being equal and some are about the witchcraft of believing. This is church music the same way Prince’s Black Album is — too dirty. It’s femme art pop the way Kate Bush’s The Dreaming is — too scary.”
Stream / Purchase No Shape: https://perfumegenius.
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Perfume Genius – No Shape
1. Otherside
2. Slip Away
3. Just Like Love
4. Go Ahead
5. Valley
6. Wreath
7. Every Night
8. Choir
9. Die 4 You
10. Sides (feat. Weyes Blood)
11. Braid
12. Run Me Through
13. Alan
Perfume Genius – No Shape is out now via Matador Records / Remote Control Records.