{"id":804564,"date":"2020-02-25T08:28:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T15:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=957743"},"modified":"2020-02-25T08:28:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T15:28:25","slug":"perfume-genius-announces-new-album-shares-describe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/perfume-genius-announces-new-album-shares-describe\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfume Genius Announces New Album, Shares \u2018Describe\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Perfume-Genius.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/perfume-genius\/\">Perfume Genius<\/a> has announced his fifth studio album&nbsp;<em>Set My Heart on Fire Immediately<\/em>, out May 15th via Matador Records.<\/p>\n<p>The Seattle-based artist also known as Mike Hadreas shared the first single from the LP, \u201cDescribe,\u201d on Tuesday, with an accompanying video directed by Hadreas and featuring choreographer Kate Wallich\u2019s dance company the YC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt started as a really somber ballad,\u201d Hadreas wrote of \u201cDescribe.\u201d \u201cIt was very minimal and very slow. And then it turned into this beast of a song. I started writing about when you are in such a dark place that you don\u2019t even remember what goodness is or what anything feels like. And so, the idea was having someone describe that to you, because you forgot or can\u2019t get to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that the video was meant to depict \u201can end of the world where there are no boundaries, there are no edges, no rules, or the rules are completely new with how you interact with each other and the space around you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wallich and Hadreas have previously worked together on 2019\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/thepitch\/perfume-genius-becomes-a-dancer-brings-his-universe-to-life-the-sun-still-burns-here-review\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Sun Still Burns Here<\/em><\/a>, a collaborative dance project that Hadreas wrote the music for and performed in.<\/p>\n<p>Hadreas will be joining Kevin Parker, a.k.a. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/tame-impala\">Tame Impala<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/tame-impala-perfume-genius-slow-rush-tour-924064\/\">on tour<\/a> this summer, opening for the&nbsp;<em>Slow Rush&nbsp;<\/em>artist in North America from May 29th until August 7th.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/perfume-genius-describe-set-my-heart-on-fire-immediately-957743\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perfume Genius has announced his fifth studio album&nbsp;Set My Heart on Fire Immediately, out May 15th via Matador Records. The Seattle-based artist also known as Mike Hadreas shared the first single from the LP, \u201cDescribe,\u201d on Tuesday, with an accompanying video directed by Hadreas and featuring choreographer Kate Wallich\u2019s dance company the YC. \u201cIt started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-21 19:59:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}