The Story Behind Every Song On Perfume Genius’ New Album Glory

It has been five long years since the last Perfume Genius album. (This isn’t counting 2022’s Ugly Season, which collected work originally composed as accompaniment for Kate Wallich’s contemporary dance piece The Sun Still Burns Here.) To hear Mike Hadreas tell it, the half-decade gap makes a lot of sense. It wasn’t just extensive touring accompanying Set My Heart On Fire Immediately, an album that had built on breakthroughs and experiments to become Hadreas’ biggest, boldest, most v...

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