LP - Perfume Genius - Glory (Pre-Order)

1LP - indie blue vinyl - released 03/28

"Glory" has a pristine surface and a tender, roiling underside. Mike Hadreas' seventh album is muscular, filled out by his partner in life and songcraft Alan Wyffels, longtime producer Blake Mills, and the fiercest band Perfume Genius has ever assembled: guitarists Meg Duffy and Greg Uhlmann, drummers Tim Carr and Jim Keltner, and bassist Pat Kelly.

Lyrically, these 11 concise tracks reveal uncanny situations that we can just barely discern, scenes of domesticity and desperation projected through an idiosyncratic, queer prism. Perfume Genius pries open a mildewed den full of alienation, longing and desire and lets it bask in the sunlight. In support, the band are p