Way to do my job, Mike Hadreas. The Perfume Genius confessionalist describes his latest jam, "Rusty Chains," as "a song for a man whose lover has died. He remembers a time, before his partner took sick, where everything felt safe and endless. He asks to be taken next, so they can be together again."No need to go trawling through the lyrics, then, in search for meaning. "Like that summer/the one we spent before/he was taken/from me," Hadreas carols, over dramatic piano chords and optigan whirs and looming ambient unease; his voice cresting with more force as "Rusty Chains" adds a little power- to its ballad.
Said balladeering rolls as a non-album B-side, following up Perfume Genius's genuinely brilliant second record, Put Your Back N 2 It. If you haven't heard the LP, the fact that the really impressive "Rusty Chains" couldn't make the cut suggests the goodness of Hadreas's latest.
Perfume Genius, "Rusty Chains"
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