Top 10 Albums Of 2012

  • Django Django - Django Django 
  • Hot Chip - In Our Heads 
  • Alt-J - An Awesome Wave 
  • Tanlines - Mixed Emotions 
  • Efterklang - Piramida
  • Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
  • Jens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn’t
  • Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
  • Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
  • Chad Valley - Young Hunger

Honorary mention: Chairlift - Something

Perfume Genius ‘Katie’: Bands In Transit (by BandsInTransit)

Stunning.

Happy birthday to me.

Happy birthday to me.

(via Radically Transparent » SLUTEVER)
“When it comes down to it,” he says, “I’m just really bad at hiding things, and I give up really quickly on trying to be any different than how I am. Cultivating mystery requires a certain level of coolness, and I just don’t think I’m that cool. I’m good at keeping secrets when they involve other people, but why should I care what people know about my dumb ass?”
This Perfume Genius profile is excellent.

(via Radically Transparent » SLUTEVER)

“When it comes down to it,” he says, “I’m just really bad at hiding things, and I give up really quickly on trying to be any different than how I am. Cultivating mystery requires a certain level of coolness, and I just don’t think I’m that cool. I’m good at keeping secrets when they involve other people, but why should I care what people know about my dumb ass?”

This Perfume Genius profile is excellent.

Hear Perfume Genius' 'Put Your Back N 2 It' | SPIN.com →

You should probably listen to this. And by probably, I mean definitely.

(via QRO Magazine - Concert Photo Gallery » Perfume Genius - Brooklyn, NY » perfumegenius14.jpg)
Perfume Genius outside Zebulon, 2/9. I left this show feeling remarkably buoyant.

(via QRO Magazine - Concert Photo Gallery » Perfume Genius - Brooklyn, NY » perfumegenius14.jpg)

Perfume Genius outside Zebulon, 2/9. I left this show feeling remarkably buoyant.

"ALL WATERS: Why are straight women always walking with their hands in the back pocket of their boyfriends’ jeans? Would I do that all the time too if I didn’t have to think about it? Alan and I hold hands in specific parts of the city and sometimes outside of those parts. But there is always a little ‘catch’; no matter how much I think the shame and fear is gone, there is always a little something in the back of my mind. I am almost embarrassed sometimes when we are holding hands, and that fucking infuriates me. I can’t even imagine that hesitation ever going away, and that makes me very sad."

Matador Records | Perfume Genius Biography

Mike Hadreas’ song-by-song explanations of each song on the new Perfume Genius record are amazing and incredibly thoughtful. This may be the best bio I have ever encountered, actually.

(via perpetua)

Perfume Genius - ‘Hood’ (by perfumegenius)

This is quite lovely.  If only the song was longer.