Album of the Week – 28/03/25

There is so much new music this week, it was hard to pick our favourite! Honestly, an embarrassment of riches with the likes of Destroyer (Dan’s Boogie), Alison Krauss & Union Station (Arcadia), CocoRosie (Little Death Wishes) and Mick Harvey & Amanda Acevedo – (Golden Mirrors (The Uncovered Sessions Vol. 1))

Still, any new release from Perfume Genius is a reason to celebrate, and Glory is no different. You can hear the dulcet tones of Michael Alden Hadreas (born September 25, 1981) below…

Album of the Week — Perfume Genius – Glory

‘Glory’ has a pristine surface and a tender, roiling underside. Mike Hadreas’ seventh album is muscular, filled out by his partner in life and songcraft Alan Wyffels and longtime producer Blake Mills alongside the fiercest band Perfume Genius has ever assembled: guitarists Meg Duffy and Greg Uhlmann, drummers Tim Carr and Jim Keltner, and bassist Pat Kelly. These players marshall their power, and Hadreas his macabre imaginings and gallows humor, to humane ends. Perfume Genius pries open a mildewed den full of alienation, longing and desire and lets it bask in the sunlight.

The record’s central conflict, says Hadreas, is the “back and forth between internal and external.” Promoting his string of beloved, increasingly ambitious albums during the past decade and a half—touring the world, dwelling in the public eye—clashed with his innate impulse toward isolation. For ‘Glory,’ he discovered a new songwriting process because he welcomed the dynamics of a group, leaving room in his compositions for his friends to flesh out the arrangements. As Hadreas says: “I’m more engaged with the band and the audience. I’m still on some wild tear, but there’s more access and it’s more collaborative, in a way that makes it better, but also scary—because it feels more vulnerable.” … – Daniel Felsenthal

Albums of Note:

— Alison Krauss & Union Station – Arcadia

— Bryan Ferry and Amelia Barratt – Loose Talk

— CocoRosie – Little Death Wishes

— Destroyer – Dan’s Boogie

— Hannah Cohen – Earthstar Mountain

— Mick Harvey & Amanda Acevedo – Golden Mirrors (The Uncovered Sessions Vol. 1)

— Unknown Mortal Orchestra – IC-02 Bogotá

March 28th:

— Alien Weaponry – Te Rā

— Alison Krauss & Union Station – Arcadia

— Arch Enemy – Blood Dynasty

— Ariana Grande – eternal sunshine deluxe: brighter days ahead

— Bag People – Bag People

— Bloodywood – NU DELHI

— Branford Marsalis – Belonging

— BRKN LOVE – The Program

— Bryan Ferry and Amelia Barratt – Loose Talk

— Butcher Brown – Letters From the Atlantic

— Carlos Santana – Sentient

— Chloe Moriondo – oyster

— Clothing –  La Muerte en Realidad no Existe

— CocoRosie – Little Death Wishes

— The Darkness – Dreams on Toast

— Dead Meadow – Voyager to Voyager

— Dean Wareham – That’s the Price of Loving Me

— Deafheaven – Lonely People With Power

— Destroyer – Dan’s Boogie

— Discus – To Relate To

— DJ Python – i was put on this earth EP

— Don Airey – Pushed to the Edge

— Dua Lipa – Future Nostalgia (Vinyl Reissue)

— Eiko Ishibashi – Antigone

— Fleetwood Mac – Fleetwood Mac 1975 to 1987

— Free Range – Lost & Found

— Fusilier – Ambush

— Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition)

— girlpuppy – Sweetness

— Gloin – All of your anger is actually shame (and I bet that makes you angry)

— Great Grandpa – Patience, Moonbeam

— Hannah Cohen – Earthstar Mountain

— Jessie Reyez – Paid in Memories

— Logic1000 – DJ-Kicks

— Lotti Golden – Motor-Cycle (Reissue)

— Lucky Cloud – Foreground

— Lucy Dacus – Forever Is a Feeling

— Marvin Gaye – Marvin Gaye Live!: Deluxe Edition

— Maya Delilah – The Long Way Round

— Medium Build – Takeaways EP

— Memphis May Fire – Shapeshifter

— Mess Esque – Jay Marie, Comfort Me

— Mick Harvey & Amanda Acevedo – Golden Mirrors (The Uncovered Sessions Vol. 1)

— Ministry – The Squirrely Years Revisited

— Moomin – Into The Distance

— Mumford and Sons – Rushmere

— NAV – OMW2 REXDALE

— Niis – Niis World

— Noonzy – Puppies EP

— Nothing More – Carnal (Deluxe)

— OHYUNG – You Are Always On My Mind

— Palmyra – Restless

— p-rallel – Can’t Be Me EP

— Perfume Genius – Glory

— Pete Townshend – The Studio Albums

— poptropicaslutz! – the new 925

— Primal Scream – Come Ahead: The Remixes Vol 1 (Vocals)

— Ricky Byrd (of Joan Jett & the Blackhearts) – NYC Made (Wicked Cool Records)

— Robert Hunter – Tiger Rose (50th Anniversary Editions)

— Sam Akpro – Evenfall

— Sandwell District – End Beginnings

— Serebii – Dime

— Sick Puppies – Wave the Bull

— Snapped Ankles – Hard Times Furious Dancing

— Somebody’s Child – When Youth Fades Away

— SPELLLING – Portrait of My Heart

— Underoath – The Place After This One

— Unknown Mortal Orchestra – IC-02 Bogotá

— Unrest – Perfect Teeth (30th Anniversary Edition)

— Wallows – More EP

— The Walters – Good Company

— Will Smith – Based on a True Story

— Yukimi (of Little Dragon) – For You