Perfume Genius(USA)

Perfume Genius — aka Mike Hadreas and the fiercest band he has ever assembled — brings his pristine new album Glory to The Princess Theatre. Glory, produced by Blake Mills and released on longtime label home Matador Records, marks the seventh studio album in Perfume Genius' immaculate body of work, which includes collaborations with such artists as including Christine And The Queens, Sharon Van Etten, Weyes Blood, Cate Le Bon and most recently, reuniting with Aldous Harding for the dumbfounding "No Front Teeth”.  

Promoting his string of beloved, increasingly ambitious Perfume Genius albums during the past decade and a half—touring the world, dwelling in the public eye—clashed with Mike Hadreas' innate impulse toward isolation. For Glory, he discovered a new songwriting process because he welcomed the dynamics of a group, leaving room in his compositions for his friends to flesh out the arrangements. Mike says: “I’m more engaged with the band and the audience. I’m still on some wild tear, but there’s more access and it’s more collaborative, in a way that makes it better, but also scary—because it feels more vulnerable.” If Glory is an uncommonly personal record, it’s because it reflects on Hadreas’ own anxieties and those of the world at large: the fears that come with success, and also a tenor of paranoia that pervades the zeitgeist. Glory feels like a collection of new standards for gay romantics and old souls adrift in the 21st century.