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Last night, I met my favourite new artist of the past year or so, a gentleman, Mike, who makes music under the name Perfume Genius.

Excitingly, Perfume Genius has recently signed to new (and awesome) record label Turnstile, which I have ‘some involvement with’. The nature of my involvement is cloudy, and also unimportant.

Perfume Genius’, sonically, couldn’t be much more simple. Just Mike, and a piano and beautiful harmonies and reverb, but the emotion behind the songs would struggle to be more complicated. The songs are almost unnervingly fragile, and often sinister, at times I feel like I’m overhearing something I shouldn’t. Songs of death and inadvisable sexual explorations. My words can do it no justice, I don’t think anybody’s could, so here is a video and a couple of mp3s:

Write To Your Brother mp3

Learning mp3

I find it incredibly nervewracking when meeting people who make music I love. I don’t see what I could possibly say without sounding ridiculous, but Mike was one of the sweetest, funniest guys I’ve had the pleasure of meeting. We talked of staring cats dead in the eye whilst they puke and of who should record his record. We got very drunk and now I lie here in my own dirt, not wanting to do anything else, ever again. Probably going to get him to come sing on our new album though.

You should really listen to this music, and friend Perfume Genius on myspace and be excited for the full length.