New music: Perfume Genius – Your Drum

Like all his best songs, there's barely anything to this new Perfume Genius track – yet its emotional impact is hugeMike Hadreas – aka Perfume Genius – is unflinchingly candid. His publicity images show him bare-chested and bruised, the embodiment of a tortured artist. Futhermore, Hadreas's lyrics detail his history of drug use, while early single, Mr Peterson, describes an encounter with a manically depressed teacher who leaps off a building. Unsurprisingly, there are limited LOLZ, but wh...

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