8.7
Avg Score
11
Opinions
#303
All Time
13
Tracks
“Ignoring for a moment the well-established dangers of judging a book by its cover, it feels like you can divine a lot from the sleeve of Perfume Genius’s fifth album. It looks not unlike something Athena might have sold posters of in the mid-80s, destined for teenage bedroom walls: a moody black and white shot of a man in jeans, stripped to the waist, the better to show off his ripped physique, hi”
“Mike Hadreas expands his eclectic sound on Perfume Genius’ latest”
“Mike Hadreas’ fifth album glides between sublime melodies and grimy, guttural dissonance, embracing the joys and burdens of the human body and its innumerable, intangible yearnings.”
“A NOTE: LOUD AND QUIET IS IN DANGER OF CLOSING. PLEASE CONSIDER SUBSCRIBING TO OUR MAGAZINE OR MAKING A SMALL DONATION HERE. THANK YOU. It’s not often that a record’s pivotal moment arrives at the sixty-four second mark. Consider the fifth album from Perfume Genius among the exceptions. Opener ‘Whole Life’ begins nervously; everything’s tentative, from the timid warble of Mike Hadreas’ delivery t”
“Set My Heart on Fire Immediately covers even more aesthetic ground than No Shape did, only occasionally coming across as disjointed.”
“The fifth album from Mike Hadreas is his most ambitious yet”
