Perfume Genius - Set My Heart On Fire Immediately

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Set My Heart On Fire Immediately is the fifth studio album from Perfume Genius.

 It sees artist and musician Mike Hadreas re-teaming 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 – from the delirious, Cyndi Laupernodding celebratory pop of ‘On The Floor’, specters of Elvis on

haunted tremolo waltz ‘One More Try’, to the harpsichordpunctuated baroque pop of ‘Jason’, and gliding steel guitar and

Balearic rhythm of ‘Without You’.  “I wanted to feel more open, more free and spiritually wild,” says

Hadreas, “and I’m 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.”  First album taster ‘Describe’ captures this sense of fleetingness and

living in the moment through a heavy fog of grizzly distortion and

tumbling slide guitars: “It 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 don’t 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 can’t get to it.” Its accompanying video, selfdirected by Hadreas, envisions “an 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.”

TRACK LISTING

1. Whole Life
2. Describe
3. Without You
4. Jason
5. Leave
6. On The Floor
7. Your Body Changes Everything
8. Moonbend
9. Just A Touch
10. Nothing At All
11. One More Try
12. Some Dream
13. Borrowed Light