“Mike Hadreas and his band vibrantly impress his shape into the most ineffable vacuum, and his seventh album might be his most spectacular demonstration yet—as it seamlessly updates familiar Perfume Genius concepts with unflinching curiosity, revealing itself as music full of lush, challenging paradoxes.”
“Glory is Perfume Genius' country-inflected cinematic masterpiece”
“Death stalks the seventh studio album by feted US singer-songwriter Perfume Genius, nom de plume of Mike Hadreas – but stealthily, not so you’d recognise its presence at first. Here are 11 tracks that sound very much alive – songs that hum with universal emotion and queer carnality, everyday anxieties and high drama, from an artist whose struggles have formed the basis of a compelling body of work”
“I'll never forget the first time I encountered the music of Perfume Genius. For some reason, the music video for the singer-songwriter born Mike Hadreas's 2012 breakthrough single "Hood" appeared as a suggested clip while I was mindlessly scrolling Pornhub, living alone for the first time in my young life, freshly moved into a ground-floor studio apartment on Toronto's Avenue Road. His face stared”
“Mike Hadreas’ seventh studio album brings a more elegant and capacious sound to unanswerable questions of anxiety, grief, and disconnection.”
“Glory sadly has a hard time hitting its stride.”
