Feeling ’22: Perfume Genius On Kate Bush, Crypto, Kanye,

For much of 2022, Mike Hadreas has taken Perfume Genius back out on the road, belatedly supporting not only his great 2020 album Set My Heart On Fire Immediately but also its successor, this year’s Ugly Season. (The latter was drawn from music Hadreas originally worked on to accompany Kate Wallich’s dance piece The Sun Still Burns Here.) But as much as Hadreas may claim to be clueless about pop culture, he’s often got his finger on the pulse, or at least some thoughts on the year’s detritus. So, just as we did way back in 2017, we caught up with Hadreas and asked him to review the year.