Perfume Genius – Too Bright

Perfume Genius – Too Bright (Matador)

With the strikingly vulnerable and brutally honest storytelling shared on his first two albums, Seatlle’s Mike Hadreas established himself as one of today’s most interesting singer-songwriters. When he started writing his third album, he initially toned down the drama and shifted his focus to more universal themes in hopes of attaining crossover success. Thankfully, the results of this compromised bored him and he scrapped everything, opting to reinvent himself by instead tapping into his own deep well of righteous anger about various topics and soundtracking these sonic screeds with appropriately aggressive instrumentation. This may turn out to be an even more effective way of getting people to listen to him, for the bold, brave, even sassy persona he reveals on Too Bright is the most fascinating Mike Hadreas I’ve heard yet.

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