Mike Hadreas has just started his run of live shows supporting his latest Perfume Genius album Glory. Last Thursday, the eve of the record's release, he debuted a bunch of Glory songs at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts including "It's A Mirror," "Clean Heart," and his Aldous Harding duet "No Front Teeth."
Hadreas recently told Stereogum about each song on Glory, and here's what he had to say about highlight "No Front Teeth":
Aldous and I have been friends since we toured together in Australia like 10 years ago. I’m obsessed with her, and I think she’s obsessed with me. I hope so, anyway. [Laughs] It’s rare to be really into someone’s work and then also be close personally. Sometimes those can season each other. The more you know someone the less you can invest in the thing they do. Not in a rude way. It can dissipate some of the magic because you know the BTS of it. But that hasn’t happened with her.
I could hear her really clearly when I sang that chorus. She has a clarity to her but with a directional energy, but it’s also unhinged and complicated. Just standing and singing and all this ambient insanity. I also knew that when I finished the lyrics, it felt like instincts or sentiments we shared. It felt like a perfect 360 collaboration.
Harding wasn't there for the show, but Hadreas unsurprisingly sounds great solo too. Perfume Genius also played the BBC Radio 6 Music Festival on Saturday night, and the fest shared some official video of old favorites "On The Floor" (from 2020) and "Slip Away" (2017).
