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£27.99 – 1xLP, Limited Edition Cobalt Blue Coloured Vinyl & Bumper Sticker
£25.99 – 1xLP, Standard Edition Vinyl
“‘Glory’ has a pristine surface and a tender, roiling underside”.
“Mike Hadreas’ seventh album is muscular, filled out by his partner in life and songcraft Alan Wyffels and longtime producer Blake Mills alongside the fiercest band Perfume Genius has ever assembled: guitarists Meg Duffy and Greg Uhlmann, drummers Tim Carr and Jim Keltner, and bassist Pat Kelly. These players marshall their power, and Hadreas his macabre imaginings and gallows humor, to humane ends. Perfume Genius pries open a mildewed den full of alienation, longing and desire and lets it bask in the sunlight.
The record’s central conflict, says Hadreas, is the “back and forth between internal and external.” Promoting his string of beloved, increasingly ambitious albums during the past decade and a half—touring the world, dwelling in the public eye—clashed with his innate impulse toward isolation.
For ‘Glory’, he discovered a new songwriting process because he welcomed the dynamics of a group, leaving room in his compositions for his friends to flesh out the arrangements. As Hadreas says: “I’m more engaged with the band and the audience. I’m still on some wild tear, but there’s more access and it’s more collaborative, in a way that makes it better, but also scary—because it feels more vulnerable.
The result is mesmerizing and life-affirming, a bonafide singer-songwriter record that’s both the most lyrically deft and musically eloquent statement of his career.” … – Daniel Felsenthal
Tracklisting:
1. It’s a Mirror
2. No Front Teeth feat. Aldous Harding
3. Clean Heart
4. Me & Angel
5. Left For Tomorrow
6. Full On
7. Capezio
8. Dion
9. In a Row
10. Hanging Out
11. Glory
