Photo Gallery: Perfume Genius at The Fillmore

On Tuesday, May 13, Perfume Genius brought its Glory Tour to the Fillmore in San Francisco. The 14-song set was heavy on tracks from Mike Hadreas’ band’s new album, Glory, featuring a six-song run of “In a Row,” “It’s a Mirror,” “Clean Heart,” “No Front Teeth,” “Left for Tomorrow,” and “Me & Angel” to start the night. But Hadreas’ setlist wasn’t all new stuff; he and the band turned in renditions of “Valley,” “Queen,” and “On the Floor” before vaulting into an encore performance of Mazzy Star’s “Fade Into You,” led by Hand Habits’ Meg Duffy’s guitar playing.

In March, Paste gave its second-highest album score of the 2020s to Glory. Critic David Feigelson wrote, “Mike Hadreas and his band vibrantly impress his shape into the most ineffable vacuum, and his seventh album might be his most spectacular demonstration yet—as it seamlessly updates familiar Perfume Genius concepts with unflinching curiosity, revealing itself as music full of lush, challenging paradoxes.”

A few weeks prior, we posted our Digital Cover Story with Hadreas. Editor Matt Mitchell wrote, “During a recent appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Conner O’Malley told the host, ‘Every moment of life is annoying and it’s barely enjoyable to be here.’ I think O’Malley is spot-on unless I am in the company of Perfume Genius’s tenets. Then, I remember what a joy it is to be unconventional and intense and guarded but also full of want and desire. Mike Hadreas’ music is as much its own body as it is the body it came out of to begin with. And, in-between the walls of Glory—songs written alone and spun into grace by friends—there is a fear being conquered. The obligations of tomorrow feel less like today’s chore. Jason, Hadreas’ catch-all pseudonym for the men who’ve entered and exited his life, dreams and stories, returns in ‘Capezio,’ and there is also Dion, Angel and Tate. There are hustlers and homebodies and ancestors; cage doors once closed now swung open; sex and mystery; youth and middle age. You are not alone in these songs, and neither is he.”