No Shape kicks off with a truly magical moment. Opening track "Otherside" begins with the steady plink of a piano as Mike Hadreas' warm and familiar voice floats into frame. It sounds a lot like what we've come to expect from a Perfume Genius song, a sort of fractured beauty that the project has conjured up for the past seven years. But then something big happens. "Rocking you to sleep, from the Otherside," Hadreas sings, a comforting and ghostly apparition. There's a pause. And then, like God herself coming down from heaven, there's a burst of glittery noise and chimes and a choir of angels. It lasts for only a few seconds before fading back into the same piano plink, the same stasis, but then it happens again. And again. It's jarring and bold, and it's one of the most beautiful moments you'll hear in music all year. It's a statement of intent.