Perfume Genius

The project of singer/songwriter Mike Hadreas, Perfume Genius spans fragile piano ballads and swaggering glam rock and explores trauma and healing with unflinching and often poetic honesty. His earliest home recordings -- many of which appeared on his 2010 debut, Learning -- established a empathetic connection with listeners that never wavered, even as his sound became fuller on 2014's snarling breakthrough, Too Bright, the elaborate collages of 2017's Grammy-nominated No Shape, and the ecstatic liberation of 2020's Set My Heart on Fire Immediately and 2022's Ugly Season. Bor...