Perfume Genius Announces 'IMMEDIATELY Remixes' Out February 19, 2021

PERFUME GENIUS ANNOUNCES  IMMEDIATELY REMIXES  ALBUM OUT FEBRUARY 19TH FEATURING REMIXES OF EVERY SONG ON THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ALBUM  SET MY HEART ON FIRE IMMEDIATELY  FEATURING ACTRESS, A. G. COOK, BOY HARSHER, DANNY L HARLE, INITIAL TALK, JAAKKO EINO KALEVI, JENNY HVAL, JIM-E STACK, KATIE DEY, KORELESS, NÍDIA, PLANNINGTOROCK & WESTERMAN WATCH VIDEO FOR BOY HARSHER REMIX OF  ‘YOUR BODY CHANGES EVERYTHING’

2020 saw the release of Set My Heart On Fire Immediately, Perfume Genius’ most celebrated album to date which topped many end of year lists and cemented him as one of his generations most innovative and essential artists. Today, Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) announces IMMEDIATELY Remixes, a companion album which sees every song on Set My Heart On Fire Immediately remixed in original running sequence by an all-star cast of Jaakko Eino Kaleivi, A. G. Cook, Jim-E Stack, Planningtorock, Jenny Hval, Initial Talk, Boy Harsher, Nídia, Danny L Harle, Westerman, Actress, Koreless and Katie Dey. The album is out February 19th via Matador. "I'm very honored to have all these incredible musicians rework these songs,” says Hadreas. “I felt personally remixed listening to their versions, hearing the spirit of my song completely transformed was very magical. Each one feels like a little portal to a fucked up shared world." Marking the announcement is a new video by electronic duo Boy Harsher for their beguiling. nocturnal take on 'Your Body Changes Everything’. The video was directed by Boy Harsher vocalist Jae Matthews together with Caitlin Driscoll and stars model Teddy Quinlivan and Brandon Gray. Watch HERE. Matthews notes, “For the video, I wanted to create something that reflected my feelings of disconnect. Summer during Covid was complex - everyone was locked down, but so desperately wanted out. Screens and distance became the norm for casual interaction. Inspired by David Cronenberg's Videodrome (1983) and Tobe Hooper's Poltergeist (1982), I developed this idea where a man becomes haunted by a beautiful alien - who can only access him through his television set. Long live the new flesh ! Luckily, Teddy Quinlivan was eager to participate from the very start and was a perfect cast for the flawless extraterrestrial. The desire within the video - the man wanting this cosmic babe so bad - matches the tone of the remix, especially during the sequences where she asks "Can you feel my love?" through the static on the TV.”

Muller adds: “This remix was a product of the darkest days of spring lockdown. The original, ‘Your Body Changes Everything’, reminded me a lot of The Walker Brothers, and I focused on that vibe when picking sounds, while attempting to honor the initial feelings of lust and desire” From operatic acid-rave ('Just A Touch’) to opulent 80's synth-funk ('On The Floor’), ambient club polyrhythms (‘Moonbend’) to breakbeat-addled electronic pop (‘Describe’), tech-damaged tremolo waltz (‘One More Try’) to a mid-song running artist commentary on the remix itself ('Leave’), IMMEDIATELY Remixes is an endlessly surprising, imaginative and replayable set to match its source material. Set My Heart On Fire Immediately has appeared on 2020 end of year lists by TIME Magazine, New York Times, Variety, Entertainment Weekly, Pitchfork, Billboard, The New Yorker, Vogue, NPR, Stereogum and many others. The album was produced by GRAMMY-winning 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. The album explores and subverts concepts of masculinity and traditional roles, and introduces decidedly American musical influences. In the last few months, Hadreas has appeared on JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE!,  played a global live stream from The Palace Theater in downtown Los Angeles and announced the publication of Immediately, the book companion to the new album featuring iconic portraits of Perfume Genius by celebrated French photographer Camille Vivier. Perfume Genius has also appeared on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert performing ‘Whole Life’ for their #PlayAtHome series and on Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon where he performed ‘On The Floor’ and ‘Jason’.  IMMEDIATELY Remixes Tracklist 1. Whole Life (Jaakko Eino Kalevi Remix) 2. Describe (A.G Cook Remix) 3. Without You (Jim-E Stack Remix) 4. Jason (Planningtorock ‘Jason there’s no rush’ Remix) 5. Leave (Jenny Hval Remix) 6. On the Floor (Initial Talk Remix) 7. Your Body Changes Everything (Boy Harsher Remix) 8. Moonbend (Nídia Remix) 9. Just A Touch (Danny L Harle Remix) 10. Nothing At All (Westerman Rework) 11. One More Try (Actress Remix) 12. Some Dream (Koreless Remix) 13. Borrowed Light (Katie Dey Remix) ACCLAIM FOR SET MY HEART ON FIRE IMMEDIATELY: "Mike Hadreas’ fifth album glides between sublime melodies and grimy, guttural dissonance, embracing the joys and burdens of the human body and its innumerable, intangible yearnings."  Pitchfork 9.0 “Best New Music”   "If the early albums were coming-of-age records, this is Perfume Genius, of age. The music isn’t any one thing. It’s everything, occasionally at once, playing with the ideas of hard and soft, innocence and danger, chaos and control, vastness and intimacy, leather and lace. The characteristic — thrilling — strangeness remains, particularly when Hadreas indulges the deeper registers of his singing voice." New York Times   "Hadreas the performer emerged in full technicolor, standing front and center as the defiant face of his, now decade-long, musical project." Vogue   "This is an album that you feel, that is designed to be danced to, full of sensuous drama and drumbeats that might as well be the sound of your heart pounding...That physicality extends to the lyrics, too; themes like touch, movement, the human form and intimacy are made all the more exhilarating given the circumstances of the year it was released. In a time of social distancing Set My Heart on Fire Immediately feels like actual human connection." NPR   “a pop-perfect two and a half minutes.” Rolling Stone on “‘Describe”   "Whoever decided indie rock had to sound small never met Mike Hadreas, the intrepid mastermind behind Perfume Genius.” Entertainment Weekly   "Recorded with a full band to give it a grand, full-bodied sound, “Set My Heart on Fire Immediately,” written about connections real and imagined, balances vastness and intimacy. Filled with Hadreas’s takes on the classic ballad, the album has a sweeping sense of romance and an innate simplicity in the way that Hadreas expresses the heat of passion.” New Yorker   "Mike Hadreas’s music as Perfume Genius has crescendoed over the last decade from a whisper to a roar. What started as a quiet piano project has evolved into an intricate, genre-crossing tapestry, with as many whimsical pop threads as there are muscly rock wires." Billboard   "Perfume Genius has always nodded at the pain of self-discovery in his music, mining identity for art. Here, he’s at his most joyful and also his most opaque, letting the listener decide whether that first breath is one of pain or release. Perhaps it’s both." TIME   "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." V Magazine   "Across Set My Heart On Fire Immediately, Hadreas reflects on past wounds and the shelter of love; he crafts songs that are barely-there confessional tendrils and songs that are viscerally physical. He becomes more versions of himself than ever before." Stereogum   "Stunning and strange." PAPER Magazine   "Set My Heart sees him embrace American rock ‘n’ roll glory. It still preserves his enthralling tenderness and idiosyncratic pop palette, but it adds torched guitars and classic rock melodies. Songs like “Describe” are led by a dreamy, prevailing calm while still shaking the ground with guitar distortion. It’s Hadreas at his most abstract and carefree. " Paste Magazine   "It’s a heavy, slow burn of a song. Distorted, bluesy guitars back Hadreas as he sings."   Vulture on “Describe”   "“On The Floor” finds him almost going in a funk/disco direction, and he does it in that way that only Perfume Genius can. It’s another very promising single and judging by these two songs, Set My Heart on Fire Immediately doesn’t seem like an album you’re gonna be able to easily pigeonhole into one sound." Brooklyn Vegan    "Hadreas’ voice explores new, grating lows alongside familiar gossamer highs. The way he routinely and naturally raises the bar from record to record makes you wonder whether he already knows where he’s going next. Maybe he does and maybe he doesn’t, but as long as he keeps burning, we’ll watch in awe, reflections of the flames dancing in our eyes." Consequence of Sound   "Perfume Genius’ most vivid work to date, a sweeping record that feels as alive as the musicians that poured their heart and soul into it. " AV Club

(Photo Credit: Camille Vivier)

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