Perfume Genius released Glory (Extended) in February, adding four new tracks to his 2025 album, and right now he’s on a Duo Tour with his longtime collaborator Alan Wyffels, playing intimate venues through the spring. Together these constitute a particular kind of artistic statement: the work isn’t finished, and the live experience is worth treating as distinct from the record.

Glory, released March 2025, was received as one of his most emotionally direct records, which is saying something for an artist who has always written from a place of radical vulnerability. The extended version’s additional tracks, including “Undercurrent (Clean Heart),” continue in that register without feeling like they were left off the original album for quality reasons. They feel like a natural continuation.

What Perfume Genius does that few artists in his space do: he treats the body as the primary site of both suffering and joy, not metaphorically but literally. The physical is always present in his work, in ways that feel earned rather than transgressive. His best songs locate feeling so specifically that they become something like documents.

The Duo format, just him and Wyffels, is the most exposed he plays. The Philadelphia show tonight is the kind of intimate experience that rarely survives the documentation process, meaning you generally have to be there. The tour runs through Boston in April.

Glory (Extended) is available now on Matador Records.