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Too Bright
Pop · 2014 · 11 tracks · 33m

Too Bright

Perfume Genius

A transformative pivot from fragile piano ballads to aggressive, shimmering art-pop. Defiant, queer, and sonically explosive.

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It's like a piano ballad that grew teeth and decided to bite back.

A fierce and explosive reclamation of power through vulnerability and sonic confrontation.

Too Bright · vs · Perfume Genius
Defiant+2.0σ

Defiant saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 11 Tracks · 33m
01
I Decline
1:58
02
Queen
3:50
03
Fool
3:56
04
No Good
3:50
05
My Body
2:18
06
Don’t Let Them In
2:21
07
Grid
2:39
08
Longpig
2:51
09
I’m a Mother
3:31
10
Too Bright
3:25
11
All Along
2:35
Moments Worth Waiting For
The massive, distorted synth blast that anchors the chorus of Queen, transforming fragility into a swaggering threat.
The terrifying, primal scream that erupts through the industrial clatter of Grid.
The sudden transition from the skeletal piano of I Decline into the shimmering, confident strut of the rest of the album.
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