Description
Set My Heart On Fire Immediately is the fifth studio album from Perfume Genius that will be released May 15th on Matador Records. It sees artist and musician Mike Hadreas reteaming with GRAMMYnominated producer Blake Mills and features contributions from musicians Jim Keltner, Pino Palladino and Matt Chamberlin. It was recorded in Los Angeles, where Perfume Genius settled in 2017 with longtime partner and musical collaborator Alan Wyffels.The album explores and subverts concepts of masculinity and traditional roles, and introduces decidedly American musical influences. Throughout Hadreas plays with themes of love, sex, memory and the body, channeling popular music mythologies while irreverently authoring its own ndash from the delirious, Cyndi Laupernodding celebratory pop of lsquoOn The Floorrsquo, specters of Elvis on haunted tremolo waltz lsquoOne More Tryrsquo, to the harpsichord punctuated baroque pop of lsquoJasonrsquo, and gliding steel guitar and Balearic rhythm of lsquoWithout Yoursquo.ldquoI wanted to feel more open, more free and spiritually wild,rdquo says Hadreas, ldquoand Irsquom in a place now where those feelings are very close but it can border on being unhinged. I wrote these songs as a way to be more patient, more considered to pull at all these chaotic threads hovering around me and weave them in to something warm, thoughtful and comforting.rdquoFirst album taster lsquoDescribersquo captures this sense of fleetingness and living in the moment through a heavy fog of grizzly distortion and tumbling slide guitars ldquoIt started as a really somber ballad. It was very minimal and very slow. And then it turned into this beast of a song. I started writing that about when you are in such a dark place that you donrsquot even remember what goodness is or what anything feels like. And so, the idea was having someone describe that to you, because you forgot or canrsquot get to it.rdquo Its accompanying video, selfdirected by Hadreas, envisions ldquoan end of the world where there are no boundaries, there are no edges, no rules, or the rules are completely new with how you interact with each other and the space around you.
