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10.0
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The Skinny
On Glory, his seventh studio album as Perfume Genius, Mike Hadreas pulls off another career-best
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10.0
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musicOMH
Magnificently muscular songs make for a glorious album that beguiles and enchants, all while insecurity and vulnerability lurk underneath
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9.8
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Paste Magazine
Mike Hadreas and his band vibrantly impress his shape into the most ineffable vacuum, and his seventh album might be his most spectacular demonstration yet — as it seamlessly updates familiar Perfume Genius concepts with unflinching curiosity, revealing itself as music full of lush, challenging paradoxes
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9.1
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A.V. Club
Mike Hadreas' seventh studio album is a stunning meditation on time and peace
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9.0
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All Music
With Glory, Hadreas discovers a rare balance between approachable songwriting and musical ambition that reinvigorates his music
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Clash
With nothing left to prove, he’s redoubled his efforts, and added another Everest to his catalogue
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9.0
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Slant Magazine
Mike Hadreas delivers tactile poetry and self-examinations, extracting catharsis from isolation
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9.0
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The Line Of Best Fit
Glory welcomes everything whether ecstatic or low-spirited, knowing that time, the inescapable spectre, will take it away and leave behind a masterpiece of memory such as this record itself
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9.0
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DIY
Perhaps his most musically expansive record to date
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9.0
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XS Noize
With Glory, Perfume Genius once again raises the bar, balancing emotional depth with musical brilliance to deliver a truly breathtaking release
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9.0
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Uncut
A record as sonically rich as it is lyrically bold. Print edition only
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8.4
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Spectrum Culture
The vanishing point between the personal and pop, Glory is lush, restless and unforgettable
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8.3
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Beats Per Minute
Hadreas is certainly a pop songwriter, though he filters his hooks through an epic orientation, viewing the micro or quotidian through mythic lens
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8.0
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The Observer
Consummate chronicler of 21st-century sensuality Mike Hadreas returns to his indie roots on a convivial seventh album stalked by death and desire
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8.0
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Exclaim
With its fresh simplicity, Glory is a blazing return to form for Perfume Genius
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8.0
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The Arts Desk
In any given song you might easily hear Neil Young, Philip Glass and Cyndi Lauper
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8.0
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Pitchfork
Mike Hadreas’ seventh studio album brings a more elegant and capacious sound to unanswerable questions of anxiety, grief, and disconnection
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8.0
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Far Out
The addition of a full band on the record has helped Hadreas bolster his sound further and establish yet another new way to approach things
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8.0
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Mojo
Over its 11 tracks, it draws the listener fully into its dreamworld. Print edition only
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8.0
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Record Collector
A fluid, fully felt album of artfully crafted confessionals and catharsis. Print edition only
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7.7
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Northern Transmissions
Glory aims big, too, but its biggest struggle is finding the right balance—the band embellishes without effect and smothers what makes songs shine. A quieter approach would have been a louder statement
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6.0
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Dork
The album feels authentic, with stripped-back production and organic instrumentation breathing life into the narratives that Hadreas weaves through individual songs and the album’s wider context
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6.0
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Sputnik Music (staff)
Despite the obvious beauty on display, there’s a thick veil that I just can’t seem to lift in order to fully connect with the work
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