Mike Hadreas has simply began his run of reside reveals supporting his newest Fragrance Genius album Glory. Final Thursday, the eve of the report’s launch, he debuted a bunch of Glory songs at London’s Institute of Modern Arts together with “It’s A Mirror,” “Clear Coronary heart,” and his Aldous Harding duet “No Entrance Enamel.”
Hadreas just lately advised Stereogum about every track on Glory, and right here’s what he needed to say about spotlight “No Entrance Enamel”:
Aldous and I’ve been buddies since we toured collectively in Australia like 10 years in the past. I’m obsessed together with her, and I believe she’s obsessive about me. I hope so, anyway. [Laughs] It’s uncommon to be actually into somebody’s work after which even be shut personally. Generally these can season one another. The extra you recognize somebody the much less you possibly can spend money on the factor they do. Not in a impolite method. It will possibly dissipate a number of the magic as a result of you recognize the BTS of it. However that hasn’t occurred together with her.
I might hear her actually clearly once I sang that refrain. She has a readability to her however with a directional power, however it’s additionally unhinged and sophisticated. Simply standing and singing and all this ambient madness. I additionally knew that once I completed the lyrics, it felt like instincts or sentiments we shared. It felt like an ideal 360 collaboration.
Harding wasn’t there for the present, however Hadreas unsurprisingly sounds nice solo too. Fragrance Genius additionally performed the BBC Radio 6 Music Competition on Saturday evening, and the fest shared some official video of outdated favorites “On The Ground” (from 2020) and “Slip Away” (2017).