Mike Hadreas records music as Perfume Genius. I'm 99% sure he's gay. I'm 100% sure that gays make the best art because most of them are hurt, alienated, et al. at some point in their lives, and pain is always helpful when it comes to creating stuff. Anyways, his first album,
Learning, came out a few months ago and it's wonderfully devastating. It's just him and a piano, and sort of brings to mind other fragile indie rock dudes like Antony Hegarty, Sufjan, and Peter Silberman of the Antlers. Hadreas moans angelically about stuff like kids getting murdered and Mr. Peterson. My favorite though is "You Won't B Here," a particularly dark ditty about how whatever we do, we're gonna be dead anyway. Damn.
If you've never felt depressed in your life, ever, stay away from this. If you have, you may just feel a little less lonely in the world.
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