Perfume
Genius will join Tame Impala on a North American arena tour throughout
the Spring and Summer. The dates kick off May 29 at The United Center in
Chicago and conclude in Gorge, WA on August 7 at The Gorge
Amphitheatre. All dates are listed below.
Set My Heart On Fire Immediately
sees Hadreas re-teaming with GRAMMY-nominated producer Blake Mills and
features contributions from musicians Jim Keltner, Pino Palladino, Matt
Chamberlin and Rob Moose. It was recorded in Los Angeles, where Perfume
Genius settled in 2017 with longtime partner and musical collaborator
Alan Wyffels. Pre-order Set My Heart On Fire Immediately
The
album explores and subverts concepts of masculinity and traditional
roles, and introduces decidedly American musical influences. Throughout
the album Hadreas plays with themes of love, sex, memory and the body,
channeling popular music mythologies while irreverently authoring its
own. "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"
The sense of communion and physicality was borne in part from Hadreas’ work on The Sun Still Burns Here.
Already a formidable stage presence, it had elevated him to a rigorous
multi-disciplinary performer. “I had been working with them for a year
and a half. With lots of rehearsals, lots of performances, lots of
relationships and energies, and I was feeling connected to my body. I
was feeling connected to all their bodies. And having boundaries be
blurred and having rules be gone and having all this play within
nonsense and absurdity -- in tandem with a real connection and truly
valuable work.” In 2019, the show travelled to Boston, New York and
Minneapolis after its Seattle debut.
Set My Heart On Fire Immediately will
be available on May 15th at all retailers. Fans can pre-order the
limited edition double LP in translucent blue with a 24”x36” poster via
the Matador webstore or in regular black at this link. The Matador webstore limited edition record can also be bundled with an exclusive t-shirt.
AN IMPRESSION OF PERFUME GENIUS’ SET MY HEART ON FIRE IMMEDIATELY
By Ocean Vuong
Can
disruption be beautiful? Can it, through new ways of embodying joy and
power, become a way of thinking and living in a world burning at the
edges? Hearing Perfume Genius, one realizes that the answer is not only
yes—but that it arrived years ago, when Mike Hadreas, at age 26, decided
to take his life and art in to his own hands, his own mouth. In doing
so, he recast what we understand as music into a weather of feeling and
thinking, one where the body (queer, healing, troubled, wounded,
possible and gorgeous) sings itself into its future. When listening to
Perfume Genius, a powerful joy courses through me because I know the
context of its arrival—the costs are right there in the lyrics, in the
velvet and smoky bass and synth that verge on synesthesia, the scores at
times a violet and tender heat in the ear. That the songs are made
resonant through the body’s triumph is a truth this album makes
palpable. As a queer artist, this truth nourishes me, inspires me anew.
This is music to both fight and make love to. To be shattered and whole
with. If sound is, after all, a negotiation/disruption of time, then in
the soft storm of Set My Heart On Fire Immediately, the future is here.
Because it was always here. Welcome home.
—Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Perfume Genius tour dates
05/29/20 - Chicago, IL @ United Center# - Tickets
05/30/20 - Milwaukee, WI @ Fiserv Forum# - Tickets
05/31/20 - Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena# - Tickets
06/02/20 - Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena# - Tickets
06/03/20 - Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre# - Tickets
06/05/20 - Randall’s Island, NY @ Governors Ball - Tickets
06/06/20 - Washington, DC @ Capital One Arena# - Tickets
06/08/20 - Charlotte, NC @ Spectrum Center# - Tickets
06/09/20 - Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena# - Tickets
06/11/20 - Miami, FL @ AmericanAirlines Arena# - Tickets
06/12/20 - Orlando, FL @ Amway Center# - Tickets
06/14/20 - Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo - Tickets
07/17/20 - Minneapolis, MN @ Xcel Energy Center# - Tickets
07/19/20 - St. Louis, MO @ Enterprise Center# - Tickets
07/20/20 - Kansas City, MO @ Sprint Center# - Tickets
07/21/20 - Tulsa, OK @ BOK Center# - Tickets - Tickets
07/23/20 - Austin, TX @ Frank Erwin Center# - Tickets
07/24/20 - Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center# - Tickets
07/25/20 - Houston, TX @ Toyota Center# - Tickets
07/28/20 - Glendale, AZ @ Gila River Arena# - Tickets
07/30/20 - Denver, CO @ Pepsi Center# - Tickets
08/01/20 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Vivint Smart Home Arena# - Tickets
08/03/20 - Portland, OR @ MODA Center# - Tickets
08/05/20 - Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena# - Tickets
08/07/20 - George, WA @ The Gorge Amphitheatre# - Tickets
# = support for Tame Impala
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