#40 Perfume Genius - "Queen"

For all of the Arcade Fires, Spoons and New Pornographers in the Top 100, there are a few artists who are new to the indie music scene grabbed a Top 100 song in their first effort! Now Perfume Queen, who is Mike Hadreas, has 3 albums out now, he has received almost no attention in the US. His 2014 album, Too Bright, came out in September but the single "Queen" hit the airwaves about a month before.

As you can guess, "Queen" is about a queen, and not the royal kind and also presumably about himself. Either way Perfume Genius may have just made a statement here and we'll see if him and his fancy lipstick can stick around for 2015. The song also made Sirius XMU's end of year list at #36 and Pitchfork gave it #8 of the year. Popmatters have it at #46, Pretty Much Amazing has it at #2 and I could go on, but you get the picture!

You can google the video for "Queen" but I will post his late-night TV debut performance on Letterman from back in October.  It's pretty rad.