Op 5 mei 2017 verschijnt het nieuwe album No Shape van Perfume Genius op Matador/Beggars. No Shape is het vierde album van Perfume Genius en is de opvolger van Too Bright uit 2014. Het nieuwe album werd opgenomen in Los Angeles, geproduceerd door niemand minder dan Blake Mills en gemixt door Shawn Everett. De video van de eerste single Slip Away is hieronder te zien. FADER over Slip Away; “Accompanied by a gorgeous, pink-tinted music video, the new one from Perfume Genius, Slip Away, is positively grand – fuller and fiercer than ever before.” De video is geregisseerd door Andrew Thomas Huang, die voor naam en fam heeft gemaakt middels zijn samenwerkingen met Björk.
Mike Hadreas, Perfume Genius vertelt het volgende over zijn nieuwe album: “I pay my rent. I’m approaching health. The things that are bothering me personally now are less clear, more confusing. I don’t think I really figured them out with these songs. There’s something freeing about how I don’t have it figured out. Unpacking little morsels, magnifying my discomfort, wading through buried harm, laughing at or digging in to the embarrassing drama of it all. I may never come out the other side but it’s invigorating to try and hopefully, ultimately helpful. I think a lot of them are about trying to be happy in the face of whatever bullshit I created for myself or how horrible everything and everyone is.”
Tracklisting No Shape
- Otherside
- Slip Away
- Just Like Love
- Go Ahead
- Valley
- Wreath
- Every Night
- Choir
- Die 4 You
- Sides (feat. Weyes Blood)
- Braid
- Run Me Through
- Alan
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