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Set My Heart on Fire Immediately

★★★★☆  album

Set My Heart on Fire Immediately

Perfume Genius fashions sumptuous, corporeal art-pop that interrogates desire, illness, and the strange insurgency of bearing a soft consciousness within an unyielding frame. ‘On the Floor’ achieves the rarest ache: a pop song that wounds precisely because it understands.

what it left me with

Tenderness in a hostile world construes itself as quiet defiance. The decision to remain soft, exercised deliberately, becomes a kind of stance.

this is one entry from a wandering list of films, books, shows and albums, kept by someone trying to live a slightly more deliberate life.

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