Ahead of the release of Perfume Genius’ fifth studio album, our writers consider how lead member Mike Hadreas' career has helped set a new standard for exploration of gender, sexuality and identity in rock.
Marissa Lorusso:
It wasn't just the personal sense of embodiment that Hadreas took from the dance performance; it was also a sense of community and collaboration. The dancers inoften did solitary movements, but just as often touched each other, lifted each other up and rolled around on the floor together. It's one thing to feel grounded in your own body; it's another entirely to understand how it might — or might not — fit with others'.
Of course, even as Hadreas considers his place in this lineage, there's always been evidence of queerness, gender fluidity and outsiderness in the foundational music of the decades he references . But hearing Hadreas imagine himself into those tropes has, I think, created a world of new sounds for Perfume Genius.In some ways, Perfume Genius' evolution, musical and otherwise, was presaged on his last album.
Due credit to producer Blake Mills, master of a certain guitar texture that curves and wobbles like the heated wax inside a lava lamp. Expert production can elevate a good album to greatness, and there are so many small moments and choices here that have that Disney princess, magic-voice-that-makes-all-the-flowers-bloom effect.
There's this insistency, an undeniability in the lyrics that has been built into the architecture of the groove. A word I repeated over and over again in my notes when listening to these songs for the first time was"inevitability." Of movement, of joy, of endings — of success.doesn't feel like a giant creative leap forward so much as the culmination of a meticulously nurtured artistry."All this for a song?" Hadreas asks on the penultimate track.
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