Perfume Genius w/Baths

As Perfume Genius, Mike Hadreas has made romantic and curious music that explores the intimacies, challenges, and joys of queer life. His feel for the texture of human relations, and his ability to articulate a lifetime of connection in a handful of words has made him a Grammy nominee and an icon of the queer underground music scene. On his latest album, *Glory*, he writes from a new vantage point, on the other side of struggle, with sweetness, menace, and comedy. Writer Daniel Felsenthal calls it “a collection of new standards for gay romantics and old souls adrift in the 21st century,” Pitchfork hailed the “detailed, moody technicolor he’s mastered,” and The Guardian called him the “consummate chronicler of 21st-century sensuality.” Along with his band, he brings *Glory* to the stage for his Ford debut.

Will Wiesenfeld has been recording original music for more than 15 years, most notably under the moniker Baths. Will has had albums, collaborations and remix work released on dozens of independent labels, and toured around the world. He maintains a philosophy of keeping his work as personal as possible, with the majority of his music created in his home studio. For his fourth full-length album *Gut*, Will embraces a new personal ethos of writing "from the stomach" versus writing from the heart. "I'm sketching my strongest and most pervasive feelings out quickly and treating their roughness as gospel, then exploring them in greater detail with the added sheen of time and perspective." The most impressive Baths album of Wiesenfeld's career, *Gut* spans a breathtaking spectrum of lacerating hopelessness to lustful joy, inspired by the more unforgiving oeuvre of post-punk and noise music, and any music that works its magic through blunt force rather than careful introspection.