Offering tough, prescient words of truth to a nation in crisis, Run the Jewels deliver their greatest album yet.
15.05.2020 - 16:57 / variety.com
By Jem Aswad
Senior Music Editor
“Masterpiece” is not a word we use lightly around here, but it’s hard to think of a better description for “Set My Heart on Fire Immediately,” the fifth and latest album from Perfume Genius. The genius in question is singer-songwriter Mike Hadreas, whose high, quavering voice and elaborate songs and arrangements cover such wide stylistic terrain that the only fitting genre description is the un-descriptive “alternative” — which doesn’t say much about an album
Offering tough, prescient words of truth to a nation in crisis, Run the Jewels deliver their greatest album yet.
Imagine a city where everyone dances. Some move to the rhythm of life.
Artists have been prescribing music to their fans as a much-needed antidote during the mentally and physically agonizing times of quarantine.
Thick smoke hovered over Minneapolis on Friday, hours after cheering protesters torched a police station that officers abandoned as a third night of violent protests flared over the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who pleaded for air as a white police officer knelt on his neck. Police evacuated the 3rd Precinct station, the focus of many of the protests, late Thursday to protect employees, a spokesman said.
Each month, Billboard Pride celebrates an LGBTQ act as its Artist of the Month. Our May selection: Perfume Genius.Aside from an inherent value in authenticity and representation, there's a bonus to an artistic career spent looking candidly at sadness, deferred fulfillment and uncertain desire.
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By John Hopewell
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Congratulations to Bryce Dallas Howard, who has finally graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts after 21 years.
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If you don't like any particular song you hear on the 1975's fourth album, stick around — something amid the band's melange of punk-rock, orchestral pomp, sexy folk, lite R&B or Tears for Fears homages is bound to click.
The singer-songwriter's seventh album continues his reign as one Americana's master craftsmen.
On this two-disc set, the singer has come up with a magnificent, multi-genre mess that, for all its sprawl, stands as one of the year's boldest and best albums.
On this two-disc set, the singer has come up with a magnificent, multi-genre mess that, for all its sprawl, stands as one of the year's boldest and best albums.