PERFUME GENIUS Shares 'On The Floor' (Initial Talk Remix) New album Set My Heart On Fire Immediately out May 15

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PERFUME GENIUS
Shares ‘On The Floor’ (Initial Talk Remix)
New album Set My Heart On Fire Immediately out May 15 on Matador

Last month Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) shared the single, ‘On The Floor’, off his forthcoming new album, Set My Heart On Fire Immediately which will be released May 15 on Matador / Rhythmethod. Today, he drops a remix of the track from Tokyo-based producer, Initial Talk. Initial Talk has done remixes for Rihanna, Lady Gaga and most recently Dua Lipa and is known for infusing early MTV-era 80’s sounds into his work. Here, ‘On The Floor’ is reimagined into a dance club track that falls somewhere between Prince and Pet Shop Boys.

‘On the Floor’ in its original form is a celebratory pop song that plays with the LP’s themes of love, sex, memory and the body, channeling popular music mythologies while irreverently authoring its own. “This glimmering, majestic track slinks and jerks with joy”, said The Guardian Guide, while The Times called it ““Lissom, swooning electro-pop”. The track is currently playlisted at BBC 6 Music.

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”

Pre-order Set My Heart On Fire Immediately: https://perfumegenius.ffm.to/smhofi

Perfume Genius – ‘On The Floor (Initial Talk Remix)’

Can disruption be beautiful? Can it, through new ways of embodying joy and power, become a way of thinking and living in a world burning at the edges? Hearing Perfume Genius, one realizes that the answer is not only yes—but that it arrived years ago, when Mike Hadreas, at age 26, decided to take his life and art in to his own hands, his own mouth. In doing so, he recast what we understand as music into a weather of feeling and thinking, one where the body (queer, healing, troubled, wounded, possible and gorgeous) sings itself into its future. When listening to Perfume Genius, a powerful joy courses through me because I know the context of its arrival—the costs are right there in the lyrics, in the velvet and smoky bass and synth that verge on synesthesia, the scores at times a violet and tender heat in the ear. That the songs are made resonant through the body’s triumph is a truth this album makes palpable. As a queer artist, this truth nourishes me, inspires me anew. This is music to both fight and make love to. To be shattered and whole with. If sound is, after all, a negotiation/disruption of time, then in the soft storm of Set My Heart On Fire Immediately, the future is here. Because it was always here. Welcome home.

—Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

Perfume Genius – Set My Heart On Fire Immediately is out Friday 15 May via Matador Records / Rhythmethod

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