New band of the day – No 699: Perfume Genius

This bedroom balladeer writes haunting lo-fi lullabies that sound like angsty diary entries sung into a dusty old tape recorderHometown: Seattle.The lineup: Mike Genius (vocals, keyboards).The background: Perfume or Genius would have been great on their own, but calling yourself Perfume Genius was always going to secure this act's place here today, even if they had been impossible to justify musically. As it is, they, or rather he – and it is a he, a 26-year-old from Seattle called Mike w...

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