Perfume Genius

This delicately melancholic singer-songwriter (real name Mike Hadreas) started out playing fractured, dark indie pop, utilizing a piano and minimal instrumentation. Over the past few years, though, he’s scaled up his tonal palette with glitzy synth shimmer, an exuberant sense of uplift and grandiose crescendos befitting M83. Now a queer underground music icon, he’ll be playing an alfresco show at the Ford during the L.A. stop on his Glory tour.