perfume genius

Our Song of the Day is from the wonderful Cate Le Bon. I Think I Knew features the equally talented Perfume Genius and is taken from Cate’s third full-length album, Mug Museum.

Following the February release of Put Your Back N 2 It (review here), Perfume Genius have already released the great video for Hood, but now they’ve followed that with a far more intimate session, playing 3 songs for La Blogotheque in Paris. Supported by his backing band and swapping between piano and acoustic guitar, Mike knocks out some flawless renditions of Dark Parts, Hood and Normal Song. With the latest …

A new mix from Folk Radio UK: The Day We stayed Off Work Feat: Andrew Bird, Other Lives, Gotye, Gardens & Villas, Death Cab for Cutie, James Yorkston, Grizzly Bear, Perfume Genius and more

★★★★★ Back in 2010 when Perfume Genius released ‘Learning’ no one had heard of the precocious bedroom recorder. Things are very different two years down the line…

Fragmented, scrapbook recordings documented at his mother’s house, Mike Hadreas’ debut Learning is the kind of angst-ridden poetry that succeeds by being so shrouded in mystery and a tender incoherence that we are left intrigued rather than irritated. These lo-fi recordings echo the Woods, his vocals Sufjan Stevens’ girlish whisper and Neil Young’s pained falsetto.