3 New Albums Out This Week You Should Listen to Now: Perfume Genius, Backxwash, and Destroyer
There’s so much good music out in the ether that sometimes it’s difficult to parse through all of it. Every week The Daily Music Report will do the hard work for you and highlight the best releases available on streaming services.
This week we’re highlighting new music from Perfume Genius, Backxwash, and Destroyer.
Perfume Genius – Glory
Glory, the seventh album from Perfume Genius, finds Mike Hadreas balancing muscular arrangements with deep emotional restraint. Produced by Blake Mills and featuring a powerhouse band—including Alan Wyffels, Meg Duffy, and Jim Keltner—the record expands on the gothic Americana of Set My Heart on Fire Immediately, evoking a world both theatrical and intimate. Hadreas describes its central conflict as the “back and forth between internal and external,” reflecting his shift toward a more collaborative songwriting process. While bold moments like ‘It’s a Mirror’ and ‘Me & Angel’ grab immediate attention, it’s the quieter tracks, such as ‘Capezio’ and ‘In a Row,’ that reveal the album’s true depth. “I’m still on some wild tear,” Hadreas says, “but there’s more access and it’s more collaborative, in a way that makes it better, but also scary—because it feels more vulnerable.”
Standout Songs: ‘It’s a Mirror,’ ‘Me & Angel,’ and ‘Capezio.’
8.8
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Backxwash – Only Dust Remains
On her fifth album, Zambian-Canadian rapper and producer Backxwash, aka Ashanti Mutinta, moves beyond the trilogy that defined her past work, embracing a broader sonic landscape without losing her ferocity. Released through her own label, Ugly Hag Records, the album is caustic and confrontational, weaving through horrorcore, drone, post-rock, and gospel-inflected abstraction. Mutinta interrogates paradoxes of identity, faith, and oppression, turning trauma into blistering catharsis. From the nightmarish intensity of ‘Wake Up’ to the existential reckoning of ‘9th Heaven’ and the searing political critique of ‘History of Violence,’ these songs, as Backxwash states, belong to “a person who was brought back to life but is now haunted by death itself.”
Standout Songs: ‘Wake Up,’ ‘9th Heaven,’ ‘History of Violence,’ and ‘Only Dust Remains.’
8.5
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Destroyer – Dan’s Boogie
On his fourteenth studio album, Dan’s Boogie, Dan Bejar crafts a surreal, shape-shifting vision of aging, layering lounge pop, glam rock, and faux-tropical jazz with his signature deadpan wit. Produced by longtime collaborator John Collins, the album embraces a full-band aesthetic, featuring contributions from Destroyer regulars and guest appearances by Simone Schmidt and former saxophonist Joseph Shabason. Across nine tracks, Bejar plays the lounge singer, the hustler, and the reluctant protagonist of his own narratives, nudging himself toward the unknown with humor, mystery, and a restless sense of reinvention.
Standout Songs: ‘Hydroplaning Off the Edge of the World,’ ‘Dan’s Boogie,’ ‘Bologna,’ and ‘Cataract Time.’
7.6
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