Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) has released his sprawling new single ‘No Front Teeth’ featuring New Zealand folk singer-songwriter Aldous Harding. The track is brimming with rising tension bolstered by shifting time changes throughout the song and the haunting chorus driven by Harding’s vocals. The music video is directed by Cody Critcheloe (who directed Perfume Genius’ legendary ‘Queen’ video) and is a fever dream-unhinged, sexually charged, hilarious and riveting, leaving the viewer questioning what is real and what is an aberration. It features Hadreas, Harding and longtime Perfume Genius band member and co-writer Alan Wyffels.
Perfume Genius was recently announced as one of the headliners of the BBC 6 Music festival, performing on Saturday 29th of March at O2 Victoria Warehouse in Manchester alongside Kae Tempest and SHERELLE. Hadreas will embark on an extensive North American tour throughout May and June. A full list of live dates is below.
‘No Front Teeth’ follows the first album single, ‘It’s A Mirror’, On his new album Glory, Perfume Genius re-teams with long-time producer Blake Mills and keyboardist and co-writer Wyffels along with an incredible group of musicians who have played previously with Hadreas on the road and in the studio including guitarists Meg Duffy (Hand Habits) and Greg Uhlmann, drummers Tim Carr and Jim Keltner, and bassist Pat Kelly as well as a special appearance from New Zealand singer-songwriter Aldous Harding. After approaching writing as an insular practice for much of his career, in the process of making Glory. Hadreas welcomed more collaboration from the musicians working on the project. The result is a more wiry and driving musical underbed to Hadreas’ stories. The album contains themes that he’s wrestled with artistically throughout his career – themes of the body and its decay, of domesticity and love, and of inescapable history and damage. There is also a return of some of his characters including Jason. But Glory is written from a new vantage point – on the other side of struggle, where one is left to contend with all that has happened but also has to learn to live in a still and uncharted place.
GLORY TRACK LISTING
- It’s a Mirror
- No Front Teeth (feat. Aldous Harding)
- Clean Heart
- Me & Angel
- Left For Tomorrow
- Full On
- Capezio
- Dion
- In a Row
- Hanging Out
- Glory
Tour Dates
*New dates in bold
29/03/25 – 6 Music Festival – Manchester, UK
10/05/25 – Just Like Heaven – Los Angeles, UK
12/05/25 – Little Saint – Healdsburg, CA
13/05/25 – The Fillmore – San Francisco, CA
16/05/25 – Kilby Court Block Party – Salt Lake City, UT
24/05/25 – C6 Fest – Sao Paulo, BR
30/05/25 – The Van Buren – Phoenix, AZ
31/05/25 – 191 Toole – Tucson, AZ
02/06/25 – Emo’s – Austin, TX
03/06/25 – The Studio at The Factory – Dallas, TX
05/06/25 – Variety Playhouse – Atlanta, GA
06/06/25 – Haw River Ballroom – Saxapahaw, NC
07/06/25 – 9:30 Club – Washington, DC
08/06/25 – Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA
10/06/25 – Brooklyn Paramount – Brooklyn, NY
12/06/25 – Royale – Boston, MA
13/06/25 – Electric City – Buffalo, NY
14/06/25 – The Concert Hall – Toronto, ON
15/06/25 – Globe Iron – Cleveland, OH
17/06/25 – The Vic Theatre – Chicago, IL
18/06/25 – First Avenue – Minneapolis, MN
19/06/25 – The Truman – Kansas City, MO
21/06/25 – Gothic Theatre – Denver, CO
23/06/25 – Treefort Music Hall – Boise, ID
26/06/25 – The Showbox – Seattle, WA
27/06/25 – Revolution Hall – Portland, OR
