Emerging Music: Perfume Genius

I was at work today, furiously sketching away and I got a text from a friend mentioning a band called Perfume Genius, whom he had heard on KEXP. I made a small mental note of it, and continued along in my fluorescent hell. A few hours later my most trusted source of music texted me telling me to listen to Perfume Genius. Her exact quote was "its like a quieter gayer Antlers". Ok kids, I get it. Perfume Genius, when I get home I'll look into it.

So I came home and got the album. I intended to work on editing the interview of another awesome band that I did on saturday, but instead I just kept listening to Perfume Genius. Its got some hymnaly undertones, some serious lyrics, some organs and some catchy piano melodies. I have a soft spot for soaring emotional music. This is soaring and emotional. 2010 has been a bit of a dead zone in terms of really new music, so I am pretty stoaked about it.

Seattle based Mike Hadreas released Learning with Matador, and you can buy it here.

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