Perfume Genius, Austra, Baths, Julianna Barwick, Midnight Sister

Perfume Genius (aka Mike Hadreas) will return to London for his biggest headline show to date with a specially curated early doors event.

Known early as a poster-wraith for notorious, joyous, tortured and free boys, girls and their fellow travellers, the first two albums by Perfume Genius consisted largely of exquisite and cruelly abbreviated songs seemingly sung in the dark at a piano with all the silences left in. The previously most recent album, 2014’s Too Bright, stepped out saucily onto a bigger stage, expressing, with the production help of Adrian Utley, emotions arranged all along the slippery continuum from rage to irony to love. Now here we have seized the vocabulary of the full expression of all music.

No Shape, the fourth Perfume Genius album, has emerged as one of the most critically lauded releases of 2017 thus far, receiving praise across the board from outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Q, Rolling Stone, MOJO, GQ, W Magazine, NPR, Dazed & Confused, DIY and many others.