PERFUME GENIUS
announces live-streamed concert
from LA’s The Palace Theater!
Live debut of material from the new album Set My Heart On Fire Immediately
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Photo Credit: Nacho DelaGarza
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Praise for SET MY HEART ON FIRE IMMEDIATELY
“It’s an absolute tour de force, a record full of drama and emotion and pleasure and pain. If this is Perfume Genius quest for senation, then his latest is absolutely fizzing with it.” – DIY ★★★★★
“Rich, fascinating and moving” – The Guardian, Album Of The Week ★★★★★
“There’s a silver thread woven into each of these songs; Hadreas pulls and they move like a single breathing thing, just as bodies do when they’re pressed against each other, then released.” – The Independent ★★★★★
“Set My Heart on Fire Immediately is, as its demanding title suggests, his most confident work yet – a patient and emotionally sagacious record that floats and pummels with a sense of satisfied discovery.” – Exclaim! 9/10
“If the early albums were coming-of-age records, this is Perfume Genius, of age. The music isn’t any one thing. It’s everything, occasionally at once, playing with the ideas of hard and soft, innocence and danger, chaos and control, vastness and intimacy, leather and lace. The characteristic — thrilling — strangeness remains, particularly when Hadreas indulges the deeper registers of his singing voice.” – The New York Times
“a pop-perfect two and a half minutes.” – Rolling Stone on “‘Describe”
“‘Describe’ is Perfume Genius at their finest as Mike Hadreas takes us through a trip of multiple dimensions, unveils a screeching guitar and unleashes a heavy rhythm section on this ‘90s rock-feeling single” – Billboard
“… a thing of beauty and wonder” – Daily Telegraph ★★★★★
“… perfection” – Attitude ★★★
“… blazes a new trail through his emotional landscape” – MOJO ★★★★
“… his most ensnaring album yet” – Sunday Times
“… atmospheric and very beautiful” – The Times ★★★★
“… bold and intense” – Evening Standard ★★★★
“expertly crafted chamber-pop vignettes” – The Sun ★★★★
“Stunning” – NME ★★★★
“one of most compelling transformations in modern music” – Crack 9/10
“burns with passion” – Loud & Quiet 9/10
“… songs of hope and survival” – Daily Mirror ★★★★
9.5/10 – The Line Of Best Fit
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Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) will appear live from The Palace Theater in Los Angeles for a special live-streamed show. The show begins on Saturday 20th September 5AM AEST but will be available to stream until Monday 21st September 5PM AEST. He will be joined by a 6 piece band as well as a string quartet and the set will include music off his recently released album Set My Heart On Fire Immediately. The performance will mark the first time fans can hear music from the album in a live setting.
Tickets are on sale now HERE
Perfume Genius recently appeared on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert performing ‘Whole Life’ for their #PlayAtHome series. Earlier this summer he performed ‘On The Floor’ and ‘Jason’ on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. He also performed a live performance for Pitchfork’s first ever “Listening Club”.
In May, Perfume Genius released his new album, Set My Heart On Fire Immediately on Matador Records to worldwide critical acclaim. The album 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.
Purchase tickets to the live-streamed event: HERE
Purchase / Stream Set My Heart On Fire Immediately: HERE
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An impression of
PERFUME GENIUS’
SET MY HEART ON FIRE IMMEDIATELY
By Ocean Vuong
Can disruption be beautiful? Can it, through new ways of embodying joy and power, become a way of thinking and living in a world burning at the edges? Hearing Perfume Genius, one realizes that the answer is not only yes—but that it arrived years ago, when Mike Hadreas, at age 26, decided to take his life and art in to his own hands, his own mouth. In doing so, he recast what we understand as music into a weather of feeling and thinking, one where the body (queer, healing, troubled, wounded, possible and gorgeous) sings itself into its future. When listening to Perfume Genius, a powerful joy courses through me because I know the context of its arrival—the costs are right there in the lyrics, in the velvet and smoky bass and synth that verge on synesthesia, the scores at times a violet and tender heat in the ear. That the songs are made resonant through the body’s triumph is a truth this album makes palpable. As a queer artist, this truth nourishes me, inspires me anew. This is music to both fight and make love to. To be shattered and whole with. If sound is, after all, a negotiation/disruption of time, then in the soft storm of Set My Heart On Fire Immediately, the future is here. Because it was always here. Welcome home.
— Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
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Perfume Genius
Set My Heart On Fire Immediately
is out now via Matador Records / Remote Control Records.
Perfume Genius
Set My Heart On Fire Immediately
1. Whole Life
2. Describe
3. Without You
4. Jason
5. Leave
6. On the Floor
7. Your Body Changes Everything
8. Moonbend
9. Just A Touch
10. Nothing At All
11. One More Try
12. Some Dream
13. Borrowed Light
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