Album title: No Shape
Artist: Perfume Genius
Genre: Chamber Pop/Art Pop
Nationality: American
Release date: May 5
Position in Discography: Fourth
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Average RYM Score: 3.52
Begins very quiet, with Perfume Genius, which is the stage name of Mike Hadreas, singing softly over gentle piano which then explodes into a powerful orchestral piece, but the following tracks don't seem to live up to the promise of that opener and I get a little distracted and bored by track four. “Wreath” has something about it and returns to the kind of quality of the first track, almost gospel in its way, and the soft vocal on the fragile “Every Night” reminds me of Marillion's Steve Hogarth at his most earnest. Lovely strings accompaniment too. Speaking of strings, there's a sense almost of Vivaldi's “Winter” in the orchestral backing to “Choir”, and yeah, there are some really nice songs here. Guess it got a lot better after the first two tracks. Pretty impressive really.
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