Fresh off of flopping his way into a GRAMMY nod for Best Album Cover in the category’s inaugural year, Perfume Genius is returning with new music today. “Undercurrent (Clean Heart)” was recorded during the same sessions as last year’s Glory LP and will arrive as one of four new tracks on the record’s extended version at the end of the month. The single harkens back to Mike Hadreas’ earliest piano-only chamber-pop recordings, forgoing the art-rock experimentation heard on the album version of the track. “‘Clean Heart’ in the studio went through a lot of incarnations before we landed on the bombastic one that stuck,” Hadreas explains. “I still think of it as a little hymn, so it is satisfying to share this piano version.”
Regarding the expanded version of the record, Hadreas added: “Most of the songs that made it on the record came together with just piano and vocal, which is a way I hadn’t written since I first started making music. There were some more exploratory songs that didn’t quite fit, but I still consider them a big part of the album’s DNA and am glad to share some of them with you.”
We’re glad to hear them! Check out “Undercurrent (Clean Heart)” below, and pre-order Glory (Extended) here.
