Mike Hadreas describes the sound of Perfume Genius as “that kind of creepy, beautiful mix of things — that warm wash of something that is beautiful, but unsettling at the same time.”
A Seattle songwriter, Hadreas writes lyrics that can be hard to hear, with subjects like teen suicide and his own mother’s experience with sexual abuse.
“It can be a very lonely thing,” Hadreas says. “But I wanted to clap for my mom, I suppose, and just let her know that all that courage is filtered down to me, hopefully. Or at least I admire it a lot.”
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