| Glory | ||||
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| Released | March 28, 2025 | |||
| Studio | Sound City Studios (Los Angeles) | |||
| Length | 41:15 | |||
| Label | Matador | |||
| Producer | Blake Mills | |||
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| Singles from Glory | ||||
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Glory is the seventh studio album by American musician Perfume Genius, released on March 28, 2025, through Matador Records. [1] It features contributions from his partner Alan Wyffels and producer Blake Mills, and a guest appearance by Aldous Harding. [2] [3]
The album was recorded at Sound City Studios in Los Angeles. Compared to Mike Hadreas's previous albums, Glory was a more collaborative effort and enlisted a band composed of Hadreas's longtime partner and collaborator, the multi-instrumentalist Alan Wyfells; producer Blake Mills; and drummers Tim Carr and Jim Keltner, bassist Pat Kelly, and guitarists Meg Duffy and Greg Uhlmann. [1]
The album was announced on January 15, 2025, alongside the release of its first single "It's a Mirror" and an accompanying music video directed by longtime collaborator Cody Critcheloe. A tour in support of the album was announced the same day, featuring dates at The Fillmore, Kilby Block Party, The Van Buren, Emo's, the 9:30 Club, Union Transfer, Brooklyn Paramount, The Vic Theatre, First Avenue, The Showbox and Revolution Hall. [4] "No Front Teeth", featuring Aldous Harding, was released as the album's second single on February 19, 2025, also accompanied by a video directed by Critcheloe. [5] "Clean Heart" was released as the album's third single on March 25, 2025. [6]
| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AnyDecentMusic? | 8.4/10 [7] |
| Metacritic | 90/100 [8] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [9] |
| The A.V. Club | A– [10] |
| Clash | 9/10 [11] |
| The Guardian |  [12] |
| Mojo | [13] |
| MusicOMH | [14] |
| Paste | 9.8/10 [15] |
| Pitchfork | 8.0/10 [16] |
| Slant Magazine | [17] |
| Uncut | 9/10 [18] |
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, Glory received an average score of 90 based on 17 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". [8]
In a 9.8 out of 10 review, Paste 's 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." [15] Uncut 's Daniel Dylan Wray wrote, "This is an album unafraid to be quiet and vulnerable yet it remains consistently captivating, and within its subtle restraint exists a record as sonically rich as it is lyrically bold." [18] John Amen of Beats Per Minute gave the album a score of 83% and wrote, "With Glory, Hadreas continues to hone juxtapositions of heaviness and buoyancy, yoking the spacious and the claustrophobic. More specifically, he explores the dynamics of entanglement and removal, melding objectivity, magical realism, and a literary bent". [19] Concluding his 8-out-of-10 review for Exclaim! , Josh Korngut writes that Glory is "an album empowered by queer exhaustion — and instead of laying down to rest, it happily sets itself on fire". [20]
All tracks are written by Mike Hadreas, except where noted.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "It's a Mirror" |
| 3:32 |
| 2. | "No Front Teeth" (featuring Aldous Harding) |
| 4:46 |
| 3. | "Clean Heart" |
| 3:52 |
| 4. | "Me & Angel" | 3:22 | |
| 5. | "Left for Tomorrow" | 3:39 | |
| 6. | "Full On" | 4:54 | |
| 7. | "Capezio" |
| 3:51 |
| 8. | "Dion" |
| 3:18 |
| 9. | "In a Row" | 3:23 | |
| 10. | "Hanging Out" |
| 4:21 |
| 11. | "Glory" | 2:17 | |
| Total length: | 41:15 | ||
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| Chart (2025) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [21] | 82 |
| Portuguese Albums (AFP) [22] | 163 |
| Scottish Albums (OCC) [23] | 42 |
| UK Album Downloads (OCC) [24] | 17 |
| UK Independent Albums (OCC) [25] | 17 |
