On September 23rd, Mike Hadreas, who performs as Perfume Genius, will release “Too Bright,” a profoundly beautiful record that remains intense throughout its brief, thirty-three-minute running time. The album, his third, was co-produced by Portishead’s Adrian Utley, and sounds much larger than his previous albums, which were mostly duets made up of vocals and either guitar or piano.What you notice first in Hadreas’s new songs is silence, which he then breaks apart with his tremulous but accurate voice and a host of supporting instruments.
