Perfume Genius 'Set My Heart on Fire Immediately', 15/05/20 |
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26th February 2020, 06:42 PM
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BuzzJack Gold Member
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01 'Whole Life' 02 'Describe' 03 'Without You' 04 'Jason' 05 'Leave' 06 'On the Floor' 07 'Your Body Changes Everything' 08 'Moonbend' 09 'Just a Touch' 10 'Nothing at All' 11 'One More Try' 12 'Some Dream' 13 'Borrowed Light' QUOTE Set My Heart On Fire Immediately is the fifth studio album from Perfume Genius that will be released May 15th on Matador Records. It sees artist and musician Mike Hadreas re-teaming with GRAMMY-nominated producer Blake Mills and features contributions from musicians Jim Keltner, Pino Palladino and Matt Chamberlin. 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. Throughout Hadreas plays with themes of love, sex, memory and the body, channeling popular music mythologies while irreverently authoring its own – from the delirious, Cyndi Lauper-nodding celebratory pop of ‘On The Floor’, specters of Elvis on haunted tremolo waltz ‘One More Try’, to the harpsichord- punctuated baroque pop of ‘Jason’, and gliding steel guitar and Balearic rhythm of ‘Without You’. “I wanted to feel more open, more free and spiritually wild,” says Hadreas, “and I’m in a place now where those feelings are very close-- but it can border on being unhinged. I wrote these songs as a way to be more patient, more considered -- to pull at all these chaotic threads hovering around me and weave them in to something warm, thoughtful and comforting.” First album taster ‘Describe’ captures this sense of fleetingness and living in the moment through a heavy fog of grizzly distortion and tumbling slide guitars: “It started as a really somber ballad. It was very minimal and very slow. And then it turned into this beast of a song. I started writing that about when you are in such a dark place that you don’t even remember what goodness is or what anything feels like. And so, the idea was having someone describe that to you, because you forgot or can’t get to it.” Its accompanying video, self-directed by Hadreas, envisions “an end of the world where there are no boundaries, there are no edges, no rules, or the rules are completely new with how you interact with each other and the space around you.” Well damn. 'Describe' is fantastic (that outro), the visuals are spot-on, and the album description sounds great. He rarely stumbles. I'm all in. This post has been edited by blacksquare: 26th February 2020, 06:44 PM |
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16th March 2020, 04:10 PM
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BuzzJack Gold Member
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Wonderful song, wonderful video |
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26th March 2020, 09:50 AM
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on a bench in coney island
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Obsessed with both of these, he just gets better and better.
On The Floor might just be my song of the year so far. |
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17th May 2020, 09:37 PM
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BuzzJack Gold Member
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This album! It's a lot softer and more inward than I was expecting — yet there is a continuous roughness that contrasts the more delicate moments. It's all so expansive and grand.
Possibly his best yet — somehow? |
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22nd May 2020, 04:43 PM
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thanks for being a sarcy lil bitch
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