Glory
The remarkable thing about Mike Hadreas’ music is how he manages to fit such big feelings into such small, confined spaces. Like 2020’s *Set My Heart on Fire Immediately*, 2025’s *Glory* (also produced by the ever-subtle but ever-engaging Blake Mills) channels the kind of gothic Americana that might soundtrack a David Lynch diner or the atmospheric opening credits of a show about hot werewolves: a little campy, a little dark, a lot of passions deeply felt. The bold moments here are easy to grasp (“It’s a Mirror,” “Me & Angel”), but it’s the quieter ones that make you sit up and listen (“Capezio,” “In a Row”). Once he found beauty in letting go, now he finds it in restraint.
Mike Hadreas’ seventh studio album brings a more elegant and capacious sound to unanswerable questions of anxiety, grief, and disconnection.
Glory welcomes everything whether ecstatic or low-spirited, with Perfume Genius knowing that time will take it away and leave behind a masterpiece such as this record itself.
On Glory, his seventh studio album as Perfume Genius, Mike Hadreas pulls off another career-best.
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Mike Hadreas has nothing to prove – but maybe that’s the point. As Perfume Genius he’s gifted us with 15 years of stunning artistry, the kind of
With ‘Glory,’ Mike Hadreas delivers tactile poetry and pained self-examinations, extracting catharsis from isolation and anxiety.
Glory by Perfume Genius album review by Michael Mannix for Northern Transmissions. The artist's forthcoming LP drops on March 28 via Matador
Consummate chronicler of 21st-century sensuality Mike Hadreas returns to his indie roots on a convivial seventh album stalked by death and desire
Album seven from an artist carving out his own space in the most modernist of ways. New music review by Joe Muggs