2/18/2024 0 Comments Be quiet and drive geniusThe new record centers on the complex melodrama of small things, the strange anxieties that persist even when you’ve finally got your life, to some extent, together. ![]() ![]() Both Mike and Alan have been sober for about eight years after a lifetime of struggling with various intoxicants. Across his first three albums as Perfume Genius, which he started releasing in 2010, he has been worshipped for making songs that rely on battered melodies and painstakingly immediate poetry about depression and drug abuse. In fact, though he has a biting sense of humor, he’s pretty heartfelt about everything in his life, particularly the sacred music he makes upstairs, in a small triangular crawl space on the second floor. “I like thinking that someone made that,” he says of his tchotchkes. Though their house is chichi in spirit, Mike tells me he’s earnest about its interior design. She’s had digestion issues in the past, and Mike sometimes, happily, has to massage her tummy to help her go to the bathroom. Sometimes, he’ll interrupt a conversation to whisper dramatically in his dog’s ear that she’s “stunning.” He loves this pup, a chihuahua named Wanda who flits around in a pink collar by Martha Stewart Pets, her nails clicking loudly. It splinters when he’s speaking about something serious and sharpens when he’s cracking a joke, which is often. ![]() Mike, better known as Perfume Genius, has the slight build of someone 20 years younger, with a hook of a nose and a wave of hair that he sometimes slicks into a New Wave part.
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