On last year Immediately set my heart on fire, Perfume Genius has collected his most textual, engaging music to date. Contrary to the lo-fi disagreement of long-winded albums with exploding power strings and synths, Mike Hadreas ’fifth LP addressed themes of loneliness and physical confusion with an energetic, heartfelt touch. Less than a year later comes the debut of the first full-length Perfume Genius remix, a carefully curated set that fades Immediately set my heart on fire through pop synth, techno, and other electronic lenses, bringing a glitter explosion to his grit.
The high speed works on it Remixes IMMEDIATELY the happiest ones are instantly. Planningtorock decorates “Jason” with ping-ponging synths and breakbeats, dipping Hadreas straight into a late-night dance floor and tuning the song’s weird one-night stand into something completely more urgent. For the little “Moonbend,” Hadreas lists Nídia, who stacks it up with jittery, dynamic drum patterns and connects Hadreas ’sad cries. The Portuguese producer holds up the celestial light of the song but then expands it with heart energy; it’s easily one of the boldest changes on the record. Meanwhile, Danny L Harle’s “Harlecore” version of “Just a Touch,” is re-enacted through a convex mirror: Hadreas ’voice is set to whine, while a host of trance synths and pummeling drums melts to create the most euphoric moment of the album. .
When the gesture remixes towards pop are simpler, things get a little darker. Westerman adds a wide-ranging, deceptive detail to “Nothing at All,” one of the most vocal tracks on the original album, including chirping cicadas, leaves and horns, and hand-drawn albums. ; the combined effect washes out the song in obscene colors. Initial Talk, a Tokyo-based producer, takes a different approach, setting Hadreas against a number of bright, elegant synths. It’s a fun pastiche (and suggests that Hadreas’ voice is accessible enough to play the sound of any era), but it’s also dangerous near the land of the “80s 80s remix” YouTube.
The album’s foreign seasons thrive best. Jenny Hval’s experimental version of “Leave” hears the original synth line and the lines on Hadreas’ reverberation calls until her own voice suddenly comes in, talking about using re -turn as a means of traveling through space. It’s a meta-time that adds depth to the project, finding a sense of true humanity in communication with Hadreas. Other out-of-kilter producers succeed in knocking into a similarly twisted series: Katie Dey combines a metronomic beat and a spliced and delayed voice at Hadreas on “Borrowed Light,” ga built with airy finesse, clever, and twangy guitar and melodies rising. from “One More Try” to be beautiful images for the UK producer, the actress, who builds up the song’s hilarious romance tenfold.
Sin Remixes IMMEDIATELY‘Different intertwined work as well’ is a testament to Hadreas’s distinctive voice and songwriting. Following the same checklist as the original, the album flows as it is through another dream-like vision. The set also nicely adds to the sense of freedom that Hadreas described making modern dance as he writes Immediately set my heart on fire– You can easily picture it knitting and twisting in a group concert to club based club times. No matter what the stage outfit, it’s hard to miss a glimpse of a particularly appealing Hadreas outfit.
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