Perfume Genius Releases Full Concert Event via YouTube on 1 Year Release Anniversary

PERFUME GENIUS   RELEASES FULL CONCERT EVENT VIA YOUTUBE ON ONE YEAR RELEASE ANNIVERSARY OF   SET MY HEART ON FIRE IMMEDIATELY  WATCH HERE

To mark the one year anniversary of Set My Heart on Fire Immediately, Perfume Genius has made his 2020 live stream concert event available in full via Youtube. To watch click here. Filmed in Los Angeles at the Palace Theatre, Perfume Genius was joined by a 6 piece band as well as a string quartet and the set includes music off of his 2020 critically acclaimed album, as well as catalog selections. To date, this is the only time fans have been able to  hear music from the new album in a live setting. Watch the concert here.

Last year, Hadreas appeared Jimmy Kimmel Live! performing “Jason,” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert performing “Whole Life” for their #PlayAtHome series and performed “On The Floor” on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Set My Heart On Fire Immediately was released on Matador Records to worldwide critical acclaim. 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.  Following the success of the album, Perfume Genius released IMMEDIATELY Remixes, a companion album, remixed in original running sequence by Boy Harsher, Jenny Hval, A. G. Cook, Actress, Danny L Harle, Jaakko Eino Kaleivi, Jim-E Stack, Planningtorock, Initial Talk, Nídia, Westerman, Actress, Koreless and Katie Dey. Hadreas has said, "I was very honored to have all these incredible musicians rework these songs. 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."  The 2xLP will be pressed onto metallic silver vinyl, limited to an edition of 2,500 exclusive to indie record stores as part of Record Store Day on June 12.

Photo Credit: Camille Vivier PERFUME GENIUS LIVE FROM THE PALACE THEATRE WATCH HERE Setlist: You Body Changes Everything Without You Describe Wreath Valley Jason Fool On The Floor Hood  Alan Whole Life Slip Away Otherside Some Dream Nothing at All One More try My Body Queen   Encore: Fade Into You  Dreeem Learning  Normal Song   Musicians: Vocals - Mike Hadreas Keyboard and Piano - Alan Wyffels Guitar - Meg Duffy Guitar / Keyboard - Greg Uhlmann Bass - Patrick Kelly Drums - Tim Carr Violin I - Anna Bulbrook Violin II - Rhea Fowler Viola - Elizabeth Lauren Baba Cello - April Dawn Guthrie 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” "The sturdy structures of pop only go so far in Perfume Genius songs. They provide reassurance that others have found ways to capture similar feelings. But they can’t hold back the immediacy of longing, the all-consuming physical need. " The 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 "’Describe" features a gloriously fuzzed-out guitar tone and Hadreas' lovely, ethereal voice." NPR “a pop-perfect two and a half minutes.” Rolling Stone on “‘Describe” "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 “‘Describe’ is Perfume Genius at their finest as Mike Hadreas takes us through a trip of multiple dimensions, unveils a screeching guitar and unleashes a heavy rhythm section on this ‘90s rock-feeling single" Billboard “a bouncy bop of a tune” Time (5 Best New Songs of the Week) on “On The Floor”  “it is grandiose and beautiful." Fader on “‘Describe” “‘Describe’ captures both sides of Perfume Genius perfectly, as pointedly dissonant as it is quietly rapturous." Pitchfork  “Between this and excellent lead single "Describe," the LP is shaping up to be something truly special." E! On “On The Floor” "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 "Everything about ‘Describe' is huge - set to IMAX, surround-sound scale. Those guitars! Ornately cloaked in some of the most beautiful distortion this side of the 21st century - with some ethereal slide work thrown in for good measure - they're the perfect vehicle for a haunting, but incredibly captivating ballad for the ages." Guitar World  "’Describe’ is all corroded distortion and guttural guitars, until these flickers of beauty start to cut through the murk." 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  "This is the Perfume Genius I've been wanting: heartfelt songwriting delivered through sunny, sumptuous pop-craft." PopMatters on “On The Floor” "On ‘Describe,’... the distorted guitar and dense wall of low-end sound gives way to an ambient, twinkling atmospheric outro. But the real throughline that connects his (very good) older music to his (even better) newer material is his underlying tenderness, the intimacy in his lyrics and dynamic vocal delivery. " The Daily Beast "The soundscape of Perfume Genius has snowballed, from intimate piano-driven ballads of heartache to bombastic anthems of swirling synths and strings." AV Club

Set My Heart On Fire Immediately Tracklist 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 Website * Twitter * Instagram * Facebook