Wild hearts can't be broken perfume1/21/2024 ![]() Vocally, Hadreas isn’t above a knowing nod to his idols – there’s a burst of wordless extemporisation during On the Floor that distinctly resembles Smiths-era Morrissey, while fans of This Mortal Coil’s Elizabeth Fraser-sung Song to the Siren might recognise the coda of Some Dream – but none of the album’s stylistic shifts feels like a pastiche. The opening 20 minutes switches wildly between musical styles, from post-rock’n’roll, pre-Beatles American pop on Whole Life, to Describe’s distorted backwards reverb-drenched early 90s alt-rock, to Without You’s modern acoustic singer-songwriter pop from the falsetto-voiced Jason’s recollection of Moon Safari-era Air, to the baroque psychedelic folk of Leave, to On the Floor, which sounds like an funk-infused pop oddity from the mid-80s. ![]() Straightforward grabs for mainstream stardom seldom come accompanied by a short essay from an award-winning queer poet-novelist pondering whether music is “a negotiation/disruption of time”, but Set My Heart on Fire Immediately does, courtesy of Ocean Vuong.Īnd nor do straightforward grabs for mainstream stardom sound like Set My Heart on Fire Immediately, at least if you cleave to the depressing current thinking about the commercial benefit of making an album where every song sounds similar enough to merge into one, with nothing to startle the streaming listener, lest they switch to something else. ![]() The sex-symbol styling, the blue-chip collaborators: you could see it all as a straightforward grab for mainstream acceptance from an artist whose commercial standing has been gradually building – 2017’s No Shape tickled the lower end of the Billboard Hot 100 – but things are seldom straightforward in Perfume Genius’s world. ![]()
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