Perfume Genius

I listen to Perfume Genius when I need to hear someone refuse to turn away from the hard stuff. Mike Hadreas builds electronic music that’s completely unguarded—no irony, no distance, just his voice and whatever he’s constructed around it reaching for the truth of desire and damage and survival. His songs don’t comfort you in any easy way. They just exist in the same space as your worst thoughts and don’t flinch.