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    PERFUME GENIUS

    Jan 06, 2020 5 minutes
    Words by Mike Hilleary
    Photos by
    Koury Angelo

    In his self-directed music video for “Describe,” the lead single taken off his fifth studio album, Set My Heart on Fire Immediately, Perfume Genius (aka Mike Hadreas) invites audiences into a uniquely personal vision of the end-times, where an isolated commune goes about their dust-encrusted existence as a singular, choregraphed entity—dancing, living, fighting, seducing, and comforting one another without care or consequence. Soundtracking it all of course is the song itself, a work of slow burning, grisly guitar distortion and lyrics of longing that eventually dissipate in a swirl of whispers and balming synths.

    “Mike had such a strong vision for the video and it was so amazing to see it come out so close to that vision,” says Alan Wyffels, Hadreas’ longtime romantic partner and musical collaborator. “It was just uncanny to me because

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