June 17 street date. The music of "Ugly Season" was written for Perfume Genius and choreographer Kate Wallich's immersive dance piece, "The Sun Still Burns Here". The work, commissioned by the Seattle Theatre Group and Mass MoCA, was performed via residencies in Seattle, Minneapolis, New York City, and Boston throughout 2019. During this time, Perfume Genius shared two of the dance project's compositions - ‘Pop Song’ and ‘Eye in the Wall’. "It's the sound of dancefloor euphoria", said Pitchfork. Now the entirety of the project's original music can be heard in the expansive dance-centric double LP, "Ugly Season". The album, produced by Perfume Genius and GRAMMY-winning producer/collaborator Blake Mills, was created in collaboration with Mike Hadreas' long-time partner Alan Wyffels. Perfume Genius will support the release this summer with a Canadian show at the PNE amphitheatre in Vancouver.
September 20 street date. 10 years on, "Too Bright" remains an early standout of Perfume Genius's unparallelled oeuvre. It is a brave, bold, unpredictably quixotic exploration of what Mike Hadreas called in 2014, "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.
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