Perfume Genius Announces 2021 North American Tour Dates - Tickets On Sale This Friday!

PERFUME GENIUS  ANNOUNCES 2021 FALL NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY, JUNE 4 @ 10AM LOCAL TIME CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ALBUM SET MY HEART ON FIRE IMMEDIATELY & COMPANION ALBUM IMMEDIATELY REMIXES OUT NOW ON MATADOR RECORDS IMMEDIATELY REMIXES VINYL OUT JUNE 12 (RECORD STORE DAY)

Perfume Genius aka Mike Hadreas has announced a run of tour dates this year that will see him playing venues in Big Sur, Salt Lake City, Phoenix, Portland, San Diego and more. He will also play special dates at The Gorge in Washington with Tame Impala and Red Rocks with Death Cab for Cutie. Tickets are on sale this Friday, June 4 at 10am local time and a full rundown of dates can be found below.   The dates mark his first live shows since the release of his critically acclaimed Set My Heart on Fire Immediately.  The album was released last year, appearing 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 LP 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. Hadreas went on to appear 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'. Following the release of the album, Perfume Genius released IMMEDIATELY Remixes which sees every song on Set My Heart On Fire Immediately remixed in original running sequence by an all-star cast.  In addition to Boy Harsher and Cook the lineup includes Jaakko Eino Kaleivi, Jim-E Stack, Planningtorock, Jenny Hval, Initial Talk, Boy Harsher, Nídia, Danny L Harle, Westerman, Actress, Koreless and Katie Dey.  The IMMEDIATELY Remixes vinyl is being released on June 12 (Record Store Day). North American Tour Dates: 06/25/21 - Big Sur, CA @ Henry Miller Library 09/07/21 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Music Hall 09/08/21 - Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory 09/10/21 - George, WA @ The Gorge (w/ Tame Impala) 09/13/21 - Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks (w/ Death Cab For Cutie) 09/15/21 - Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom 09/16/21 - Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress Outside 11/01/21 - San Diego, CA @ Music Box 11/12/21 - Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall

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