As Seattle’s power-pop artist Perfume Genius, Mike Hadreas reveals his every ragged edge with painstaking candor and elaborate vision. On his third release, “No Shape,” a more optimistic, rounded ...

Forget, for a moment, the music. Under the name Perfume Genius, Mike Hadreas has released four albums (2010’s Learning, 2012’s Put Your Back N 2 It, 2014’s Too Bright and 2017’s No Shape) of intense, ...

Perfume Genius' Mike Hadreas has announced Reshaped, a collection of remixes of songs from his excellent 2017 album No Shape. The first of these is a heady remix of "Run Me Through" from the young ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook From there, the album sprawls in multiple directions. The lush strings — a new addition to Hadreas ...

Mike Hadreas, the creative force behind Perfume Genius, shares the stories behind his boldest album to date. Since releasing his debut album Learning under the name Perfume Genius in 2010, Mike ...

The eyes of the nation may have been on Alabama on Tuesday night, as the special Senate election wound down into its final hours, but 1,000 miles north, in Brooklyn’s Music Hall of Williamsburg, the ...

Perfume Genius's 2017 album No Shape is to be pushed in new directions with a new remix EP. Due on June 8, Reshaped features six remixes of tracks from the record. A version of "Run Me Through" by ...

From the very first song, Perfume Genius's new album, No Shape, feels like getting caught in a thunderstorm. It starts off with just a few drops of delicate piano notes and a shift in the air pressure ...

Mike Hadreas had already lived a lot of life before he became Perfume Genius. Growing up, he struggled with Crohn’s disease, and the cruelty of homophobic bullies in high school. He witnessed domestic ...

The seattle-based musician Perfume Genius, real name Mike Hadreas, came to national attention with 2014’s acclaimed album Too Bright, a meditation on being queer in a straight world. On lead single ...

Perfume Genius has announced a North American tour, where he'll be joined by David Byrne, The Mayan, and Big Thief. The tour will begin in California this April and run through June, when it will ...