Music News - Perfume Genius to mesmerise kiwis in 2015
12 December 2014 - 1 Comment
MYSTERY GIRL & CHEESE ON TOAST present
PERFUME GENIUS
Friday 20th February, 2015
Kings Arms, AUCKLAND
Saturday 21st February 2015,
Bodega, WELLINGTON
Tickets on sale now
from http://www.undertheradar.co.nz/
Real Groovy Auckland / Slowboat & RPM Wellington
Seattle native Mike
Hadreas – aka Perfume
Genius – brings his four piece band to New Zealand for the
first time in February 2015 to delight audiences & perform songs from his
profoundly beautiful new album Too
Bright,
out now on Matador Records.
WATCH THE BRAND NEW VIDEO FOR FOOL HERE
“Hadreas’ sexuality is obviously a huge part of his work, but he’s above all a human—one who’s spoken about battling addiction and sickness and sadness, and one who possesses the ability to write about it in a way that feels universal. A huge part of what makes the work so strong is the generous human spirit that bleeds into it, and Too Bright is the best example to date of the lengths he goes to confront his fears and demons. These songs feel less like songs and more like treasures, ones that fill you with power and wisdom” – PITCHFORK Best New Music
Over the course of his previous two astonishing
albums, Perfume
Genius cemented his place as a singer-songwriter of rare
frankness, creating songs that, while achingly emotional, offered empathy and
hope, rather than any judgment or handwringing. Sparse, gorgeous and with
Hadreas’ quavering vocals often only accompanied by piano, they were uncommonly
beautiful tales of a life lived on the dark side – scarred, brutalised, yet
ultimately, slowly but surely reclaimed.
The third album from Perfume
Genius, Too
Bright, builds on the exquisite piano ballads Hadreas has become known for, but is less
self-conscious and less concerned with storytelling and easily-digested
melodies. It is a brave, bold, unpredictably quixotic exploration of what
Hadreas calls “an
underlying rage that has slowly been growing since ten and has just begun to
bubble up”. Recorded with Adrian
Utley of Portishead and featuring John Parish on
several tracks, it is a stunning about-face which brings to mind audacious
career-shift albums like Kate Bush’s The
Dreaming or Scott Walker’s Tilt, records which walk the tightrope
between pure songwriting and overt experimentation.
Too Bright is one of 2014’s most acclaimed releases, and the “Best Of 2014” accolades keep
pouring in: NPR,
Time Magazine, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Stereogum, Paste, Cosmopolitan, American
Songwriter, and so many more. It’s an ambitious album, and it’s
been extremely gratifying to see how closely people have listened and how
intelligently it’s been written about – and in turn, how popular it’s been with fans.
We can't wait to welcome Perfume Genius to our universe in February next year
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