Mike Hadreas, AKA Perfume Genius, has released his fifth studio album – Set My Heart On Fire Immediately – to critical acclaim. The new album explores and subverts ideas of masculinity through a gay, American lens, culminating in a beautiful, honest LP that’s dripping with Hadreas’ singular sound. Graeme Watson caught up with Hadreas for […]
Perfume Genius Set My Heart On Fire Immediately ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Perfume Genius (aka Mike Hadreas) has just released his sixth album and its arguably his best work yet. Perfume Genius first caught our a decade ago with his hauntingly beautiful track Gay Angels from his debut album Learning. Two years later he gave us […]
Perfume Genius (aka Mike Hadreas) will release his 5th studio album, Set My Heart On Fire Immediately on 15 May 2020. This week he shared the first single, Describe, which is filled with grizzly distortion and tumbling slide guitars. Hadreas said the song started as a ballad but morphed into something else. “It started as […]
Perfume Genius | Chevron Festival Garden | 28th February 2018 | ★ ★ ★ ★ Perfume Genius made his second appearance at the Perth Festival, he previous played a show back in 2015, this time Mike Hadreas focused on songs from his most recent fourth record. Opening up with the Otherside, the lead track from his most recent […]
Since releasing his fourth album No Shape Mike Hadreas, who performs as Perfume Genius, has been on the road playing shows around the world. OUTinPerth caught up with Hadreas while he had a short break over Christmas that gave him a chance to return to his home in Seattle. Soon he’ll be back on the […]
Perfume Genius has revealed the first track from his forthcoming fourth album. Slip Away is an intriguing and original sounding tune that has epic declarations of love, big clashing sounds and beats and subtle quiet pauses. The tune also comes with a beautifully bonkers video filled with new romantic fashion, swooning and provocative peach consumption. […]
Sizzy Rocket, you might not have heard of her before but she’s just put out a great version of the Perfume Genius song ‘Queen’. When Perfume Genius visited Perth earlier this year, and graced the cover of OUTinPerth, we were blown away by his live rendition of the song, but Sizzy Rocket makes the tune […]
Mike Hadreas, who performs as Perfume Genius, released his third album last year. It was a collection of songs that had critics clamouring for adjectives as the musician delivered a record that was distinctly different to his previous output. While the first two Perfume Genius records contained songs that were filled with tender lyrics, […]
Perfume Genius is just one of the many amazing artists set to play at the Perth International Arts Festival in 2014. Festival Director Jonathan Holloway announced the line up for his fourth and final festival in-front of a capacity crowd at the Concert Hall this evening. Perfume Genius, the performing moniker of Seattle based artist […]
Perfume Genius, a.k.a. Seattle musician Mike Hadreas has released a new song entitled ‘Queen’. It’s a mad hot melodic jam that sounds like something a raggedy wizard king would listen to if he lived in an opulent yet isolated palace in the 1980s. Also it features the lyric ‘No family is safe when I sashay’, […]
