Perfume Genius on His New Album ‘Glory’ and His ‘Sense Of Duty’ to Queer Community

Perfume Genius on His New Album ‘Glory’ and His ‘Sense Of Duty’ to Queer Community

Perfume Genius reflects on the collaborative process surrounding his album "Glory" and how he has always felt a sense of duty to the queer community.

He has just released “Glory”, a new album inspired by “great universal truths”, and returns to Portugal in summer to perform at the Vodafone Paredes de Coura festival. Perfume Genius spoke to BLITZ about his relationship with mirrors, Donald Trump's threats to the North American LGBTQIA+ community, and his willingness to move to another country

Perfume Genius announces 2025 UK tour

Perfume Genius has shared details of a new UK tour, set to take place later this year. Find ticket details below.The new dates come following Perfume Genius – real name Mike Hadreas – dropping his new album ‘Glory’ via Matador today (March 28).It marks his seventh LP, and the follow-up to 2022’s ‘Ugly Season’. Produced by longtime collaborator Blake Mills, the 11-track album deals with the “back and forth between internal and external” and was p…

Perfume Genius: Glory - Spectrum Culture

Mike Hadreas has spent 2025 telling people that his next Perfume Genius album, Glory, will be his “most directly confessional” album to date. He’s explained that it will examine both his interior life and external forces. Longtime Perfume Genius listeners will be forgiven for wondering how, exactly, that is possible. Not the confessional nature of his music, but the metric by which “most” can be measured. Is it “more” directly confessional than …