While Vuong’s words serve as a neat complement to Set My Heart On Fire Immediately, Hadreas is perhaps underestimating his own skills as a lyricist, and his ability to capture those moments just as effectively. For those who have followed the rise of Perfume Genius over the past decade, it‘s been a journey of increasing returns. His first two albums, 2010’s Learning and 2012’s Put Your Back N 2 It, consisted of intimate, confessional bedroom pop where, despite the starkly literal lyrics, Hadreas himself remained mostly behind the scenes. (He laughs when I remind him of the fact that Learning’s cover is literally his own face scratched out and covered with paper towels.) But with the release of the thunderous lead single “Queen” and its accompanying video in 2014 for his third album, Too Bright, Hadreas the performer emerged in full technicolor, standing front and