Perfume Genius

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• Glory by Perfume Genius | Album Review | Medium | April 11, 2025, 12:54 p.m.
Mike Hadreas bares his soul on this Americana-tinged singer/songwriter release.

• Perfume Genius: "I've always been very serious about my music, but almost everything else I do is not serious" | Hotpress
As he releases his incredible seventh album Glory, Perfume Genius – aka Mike Hadreas – talks about his fear of dying, and the fascinating creative pro...

• Perfume Genius Doesn’t Need To Answer Any Questions | PAPER | April 8, 2025, 1:30 p.m.
“A lot of the songs are kind of like exposure therapy. It’s at least attempting to feel more as opposed to just thinking.”

• Album Review: Perfume Genius – Glory | Beats Per Minute
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• Perfume Genius performs "It's a Mirror" on Fallon | Consequence | April 4, 2025, 2:21 p.m.
Perfume Genius stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to perform "It's a Mirror," a cut from his new album Glory. Watch it here.

• Perfume Genius : Glory | Treble | April 4, 2025, 2:30 a.m.
A surprisingly more conventional stab at alt-rock from Mike Hadreas

• Watch Perfume Genius Perform Powerful Album Opener "It's A Mirror" on 'Fallon' | Stereogum | April 4, 2025, 5:04 p.m.
Last week, Mike Hadreas released Glory, his latest album as Perfume Genius. Unsurprisingly, it’s tender and shape-shifting, which Ryan Leas further explored in last week’s interview with him. Last night, on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Hadreas performed album opener “It’s A Mirror,” which he had described to Leas as “the most plainspoken mission statement of the record. It’s a soup of all the things I was thinking about the last few years.” “It’s A Mirror” ebbs and flows as Hadreas interrogates isolating mental strife. He detailed that it’s about forcing oneself out of these paralyzing moments: “I wake up overwhelmed even when nothing is going on. I spend the rest of the day trying to regulate, which I prefer to do at home alone with my thoughts. But why? They are mostly bad. They also haven’t really changed for decades. I wrote ‘It’s a Mirror’ while stuck in one of these isolating loops, seeing that something different and maybe even beautiful is out there but not

• Album review: Perfume Genius’ ‘Glory’ is a testament of queer love and its place in popular music | The Appalachian | April 3, 2025, 7:35 p.m.
While Perfume Genius has been a prominent force in independent pop for over a decade, his latest album “Glory” explores a darker sonic texture with introspective writing. 

• Perfume Genius - Glory | The Needle Drop | April 4, 2025, 8:25 p.m.
Glory sadly has a hard time hitting its stride.

• Watch Perfume Genius Perform “It’s a Mirror” on Fallon | Pitchfork | April 4, 2025, 3:01 p.m.
Mike Hadreas brought his full band to the fog-filled Tonight Show performance

• Huw Stephens - With Perfume Genius - BBC Sounds | BBC
Huw is joined by Perfume Genius to talk about his new album 'Glory'.

• Perfume Genius Glows in ‘Glory’ | The Loyola Phoenix | Loyola Phoenix | April 2, 2025, 11:15 a.m.
The album details the downward spiral of self-destruction.

• Glory review | Perfume Genius tones down the distortion, turns up the intimacy whynow | whynow
The new Perfume Genius album shows restraint, intimacy, and moments of heart-wrenching clarity.

• Perfume Genius takes the long way around to Glory | The A.V. Club
Perfume Genius takes the long way around to Glory

• Perfume Genius: Glory review – full of energy and biting nuance | The Guardian | March 29, 2025, 2 p.m.
Consummate chronicler of 21st-century sensuality Mike Hadreas returns to his indie roots on a convivial seventh album stalked by death and desire

• Watch Perfume Genius debut six 'Glory' songs live in London | NME | March 30, 2025, 7:27 p.m.
Perfume Genius gave six songs from new album ‘Glory’ their live debut at a show in London this week – watch footage below. 

• Watch Perfume Genius Sing “No Front Teeth” Live For The First Time In London | Stereogum | March 30, 2025, 4:52 p.m.
Mike Hadreas has just started his run of live shows supporting his latest Perfume Genius album Glory. Last Thursday, the eve of the record’s release, he debuted a bunch of Glory songs at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts including “It’s A Mirror,” “Clean Heart,” and his Aldous Harding duet “No Front Teeth.”

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