Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) has shared a new single, “On The Floor.” The track is off his forthcoming new album Set My Heart On Fire Immediately which will be released May 15 via Matador. “On the Floor” is a celebratory pop song that plays with the album’s themes of love, sex, memory and the body, channeling popular music mythologies while irreverently authoring its own. As with the last single “Describe,” Perfume Genius directed the video for “On The Floor” and he notes, “A crush can really live on its own, separate from you and the person you are pining for. The fantasy feels like its own world, obsession can turn the person you are longing for in to a monument that has less and less to do with them and more to do with the idea of love itself and what it can do, what it can soothe or quiet or light on fire. I wanted to show that maddening, solitary part of desire but keep the core which is a real warmth and belief that you have something crucial to share with each other.”
This
spring and summer Perfume Genius will join Tame Impala on a North
American arena tour with dates that kick off May 29 at The United Center
in Chicago and conclude in Gorge, WA on August 7 at The Gorge
Amphitheatre.
Last month Perfume Genius shared the album’s first single “Describe” and Rolling Stone called it a “a pop-perfect two and a half minutes.” Billboard
said, “‘Describe’ is Perfume Genius at their finest as Mike Hadreas
takes us through a trip of multiple dimensions, unveils a screeching
guitar and unleashes a heavy rhythm section on this ‘90s rock-feeling
single" and Fader noted, “it is grandiose and beautiful." Pitchfork said, “Describe" captures both sides of Perfume Genius perfectly, as pointedly dissonant as it is quietly rapturous."
Set My Heart On Fire Immediately
was produced by GRAMMY-winning producer Blake Mills and features
contributions from musicians Jim Keltner, Pino Palladino, Matt
Chamberlin and Rob Moose. It was recorded in Los Angeles, where Perfume
Genius settled in 2017 with longtime partner and musical collaborator
Alan Wyffels.
The
album explores and subverts concepts of masculinity and traditional
roles, and introduces decidedly American musical influences. "I wanted
to feel more open, more free and spiritually wild," says Hadreas, "and
I'm in a place now where those feelings are very close-- but it can
border on being unhinged. I wrote these songs as a way to be more
patient, more considered -- to pull at all these chaotic threads
hovering around me and weave them in to something warm, thoughtful and
comforting"
