Under the Radar

PERFUME GENIUS

Ray Lego

With No Shape, Mike Hadreas, aka Perfume Genius, has created one of the more brilliant albums released thus far in 2017, and certainly the best since he began releasing records in 2010 with his debut LP Learning . And on his fourth album, easily his most ambitious and meticulous to date, Hadreas turned to ecstatic events and wanted to write about feeling comfortable in his own skin. “I didn’t want to be jaded, which is way cooler, but I wanted to be joyous

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