Perfume Genius - “Learning” [MP3]

Mike Hadreas é um compositor/cantor de Seattle de apenas 20 anos, mais conhecido como Perfume Genius, que está lançando seu álbum de estréia, Learning, hoje, via Matador Records. Dizem por aí e acolá que este álbum é uma maravilha de debut. A primeira pérola liberada gratuitamente deste debut é justamente a canção “Learning”, que dá título e também abre o disco.

MP3: Genius Perfume - “Learning”
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Even though he is only in his 20s, Mike Hadreas, aka Seattle’s PERFUME GENIUS, has a story with the twists and turns of a person who has seen a lot of darkness. Hadreas explains: “I spent my whole life hiding from the things that happened to me, to my family and friends. The entirety of all these experiences: abuse, addiction, suicide, all that cool stuff, I couldn’t bear to look at it.”

This extraordinary debut album explores that world through home-recorded songs that bring to mind early Cat Power, Elliott Smith, Sufjan Stevens and Pink Moon-era Nick Drake. Mostly simple vocal and piano, the minor-key melodies work their way into your brain and stick there. “Mr. Peterson" is the seemingly innocuous tale of a high school teacher turned inside-out. “Gay Angels' is a gorgeous soundscape of layered organs and synths. “Write To Your Brother' contains elliptical allusions to a mother treating a song “like a lover.' Hadreas’s life is a catalog of remembered pain and sadness, and this album is an indelible testament to that.

1. Learning
2. Look Out, Look Out
3. Mr Peterson
4. Gay Angels
5. You Won’t B Here
6. Write To Your Brother
7. No Problem
8. When
9. Perry
10. Never Did

Pre-order: Learning

Links: myspace | matadorrecords


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