Things get strange in the new video from Perfume Genius, ‘No Front Teeth (feat. Aldous Harding)’. The song is from Mike Hadreas’ newest release on Matador Records, ‘Glory’. The music video directed by Cody Critcheloe is a surreal study of violence and intimacy with Hadreas and Harding tussling through disturbing scenes and eating an enormous amount of waffles with syrup. Not for the light of heart, the images on screen capture the alienation of the song’s arrangement. Produced by Blake Mills, the album is available now on all streaming services. Perfume Genius will be performing in the UK in late 2025.
There was a moment in the closing encore 'Swell Does the Skull', when Aldous Harding sings "I don't want to be a sinner," that the brain, ever alert for double meanings and enigmatic obliquities, decides that she is really stating "I don't want to be a singer." And it's true…
CC are a Montreal-based folk collective, with the collective aspect shown by the many different voices and the mix of styles and textures. The album has a kind of collective identity but also a compilation feel. At its best, it is a fine mixture of contemporary Americana. This Song, bristling with suppressed energy, has vocals redolent…
Silver Torches is Erik Walters, a touring member of Perfume Genius and David Bazan's band, and his first single from his forthcoming album If I Reach dropped on Stereogum earlier this week, a synth laden, heavily Springsteen influenced number. The new album dips in and out of americana, with the legendary Greg Leisz…
Ed Donnelly is a multi-instrumentalist, recording engineer and record producer from Los Angeles. He has worked with Willie Nelson, Crowded House, Marc Cohn, Jools Holland, Matchbox Twenty, The Cult, BoyHaunt, Gladys Knight, Trent Summar and The West Coast Mob, Smashing Pumpkins, Del McCoury, OK Go, Exodus, Molly Leach, Tom Morello, O.A.R., Madness, The Crystal Method, DrunkHungry, Deadmau5, Zac Brown, CrysP Tyger, Bighead Todd and the Monsters, Jake Shimabukuro, Barenaked Ladies, Tsar, Killola and more. Donnelly regularly performs with Nathan Jacques as well as Little Silver Hearts and records with GhostsDream. Little known fact: He previously held Top Secret Security Clearance with the U.S. Department of State and Q Clearance from the Department of Energy.
He currently runs The Barber’s Basement Recording Studio in Highland Park and is a partner in The Atmos at Lemontree Studio.
