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Too Bright

by Perfume Genius

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1.
I Decline 01:58
2.
Queen 03:50
3.
Fool 03:55
4.
No Good 03:49
5.
My Body 02:17
6.
7.
Grid 02:39
8.
Longpig 02:50
9.
I'm A Mother 03:30
10.
Too Bright 03:25
11.
All Along 02:34

about

Over the course of two astonishing albums, Perfume Genius, aka Seattle native Mike Hadreas, cemented his place as a singer-songwriter of rare frankness, creating songs that, while achingly emotional, offered empathy and hope, rather than any judgment or handwringing. Sparse, gorgeous and with Hadreas’ quavering vocals often only accompanied by piano, they were uncommonly beautiful tales of a life lived on the dark side – scarred, brutalised, yet ultimately, slowly but surely reclaimed.

Too Bright, however, is something else altogether. Less self-conscious, and less concerned with storytelling and easily-digested melodies, it is a brave, bold, unpredictably quixotic exploration of what Hadreas calls “an underlying rage that has slowly been growing since ten and has just begun to bubble up”. Recorded with Adrian Utley of Portishead and featuring John Parish on several tracks, it is a stunning about-face which brings to mind audacious career-shift albums like Kate Bush’s The Dreaming or Scott Walker’s Tilt, records which walk the tightrope between pure songwriting and overt experimentation.

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released September 22, 2014

Mike Hadreas - Piano, keyboards, synthesizer, vocals, wurlitzer electric piano on track 11, gong on track 5, handclaps on track 8
Adrian Utley - Bass on tracks 2, 3, 5, 7 & 11 , guitar on tracks 1 & 11, handclaps on track 8, synthesizer on tracks 2, 3, 5, 7 & 8
John Parish - Drums on track 2, 7, 8 & 11, shaker on track 5
Alan Wyffels - Keyboards on tracks 2 & 5, piano on track 6, synthesizer on track 3, 4, 8 & 10
Ross Hughes - Bass Clarinet on tracks 3, 4 & 10, saxophone on track 7
Jim Barr - Double Bass on tracks 3, 4 & 6
Hervé Bécart - Drums on tracks 3, 5 & 8
Ali Chant - Handclaps on track 8

All songs written by Mike Hadreas

Produced, engineered and mixed by Adrian Utley and Ali Chant at Toybox and Planet 245 Studios in Bristol. Additional recording by Mike Hadreas

Mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound

Photography by Luke Gilford
Design by Alison Fielding

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