Perfume Genius has publicly made available three new bonus tracks from his 2014 album ‘Too Bright’ – check them out below.
This past weekend, Perfume Genius (real name Mike Hadreas) released the 10th anniversary reissue of ‘Too Bright’. It now features three bonus tracks, ‘Story Of Love’, ‘My Place’ and ‘When U Need Someone’ on digital streaming platforms.
This marks the first time the three songs have been shared to a mass audience, as they have never been released before. Previously, the special edition of the original ‘Too Bright’ release included one different bonus track, ‘Thing’.
Listen to ‘Story Of Love’, ‘My Place’ and ‘When U Need Someone’ below.
Earlier this year, Perfume Genius featured on Jack Antonoff’s soundtrack for the Apple TV series The New Look. For the soundtrack, Hadreas covered ‘What A Difference A Day Makes’.
Perfume Genius’ ‘Too Bright’ scored a four-star review upon its release in 2014, with Jamie Fullerton writing for NME: “‘Too Bright’ isn’t quite as tough as Hadreas made it seem. Rather, it’s a collection of enthralling confessionals where stabs of bleakness mean that heavy bleeding dominates.”
Meanwhile, the musician’s latest album ‘Ugly Season’ similarly scored a four-star review in 2022, with Patrick Clarke writing for NME: “‘Ugly Season’ might be indulgent, but Hadreas is still able to weave in the tender and immediate songwriting that made ‘Set My Heart On Fire’ so engaging (just as he wove his experimental streak into that record). There is, after all, a track called ‘Pop Song’, on which a beautiful, highly emotive vocal melody rises shimmering over a skittering instrumental; powerful, nuanced and forward-thinking.”
