Too Bright
by Perfume Genius
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Perfume Genius bestography
Too Bright is ranked 3rd best out of 8 albums by Perfume Genius on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Perfume Genius is Set My Heart On Fire Immediately which is ranked number 1184 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,479.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Too Bright track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Too Bright rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  johnner | Top 69 Music Albums of the 2010s | 29/69 | 12 |
| 2026 | juanr1096 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2014 | 56/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | Juneof44 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 97/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2014 | 100/100 | 0 |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 91 Music Albums of 2014 | 2/91 | 5 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | The Line of Best Fit Fifty Essential Albums of 2014 | 31/50 | - |
| 2026 | Jorbaa | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 10/100 | 18 |
| 2026 | daCritic | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 39/100 | 12 |
| 2026 | Jorbaa | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 98/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Repo | Top 26 Music Albums of 2014 | 17/26 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 281 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,132 | |||
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Too Bright ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/29/2026 06:50 | ASOARE | 2,572 | 78/100 |
| ! | 09/06/2026 19:09 |  DanielNunes93 | 2,838 | 60/100 |
| ! | 07/01/2026 20:52 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,500 | 70/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.8/100, a mean average of 76.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.3.
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Too Bright forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 10/07/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5458): By JorbaaView latest topic →
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Too Bright comments
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RockyRaccoon TOP 100 COMMENTER 09/29/2014 19:09 | #123007 | TOP COMMENT
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Perhaps one of the greatest things about music is its ability to showcase the intimate portions of the human experience without sounding invasive. People have an obsession with watching other people, an obsession with voyeurism (to a point), seeing what other people do in what are typically private situations. It’s evident in our movies, our TV shows and our music (Laura Mulvey has written extensively on this subject). But the beautiful thing about music is it exists as a catharsis, it exists for the purpose of being an outlet for the creator as well as the listener. A musician writes about the emotions they are experiencing or the situation they’re in and people listen to it and say “I was/am in the same spot, and I understand”.
Mike Hadreas puts himself on full display for everyone on this album. This album is intimate, like reading someone’s diary, yet it is also triumphant in a way. This album is about dealing with things, dealing with unpleasant things that happen to you, looking them in the eye and refusing to be taken down by them. Whether Hadreas is slowly singing in a voice just above a whisper over a sparse set of instrumentation (typically just a reverbed piano) or singing something more layered and instrumentally involved, you feel a connection to him. The beauty in this album cannot be overstated, it’s powerful, emotionally evocative stuff.
covecove TOP 100 COMMENTER 10/08/2014 03:10 | #123674 | TOP COMMENT
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Perfectly crafted pop music. Dark, ethereal and savy. One of the best of the year so far...
A massive improvement from "Put Your Back N 2 It". Showing proper and logical musical growth. 2014 is lacking in such focused progressive and compelling projects.
Like all of Mike's albums, phenomenal. This one sort of occupies that middle ground in his transformation, containing some of the soft, emotionally charged and striped down sounds of his previous work, but also venturing into some of the more upbeat and/or triumphant style he comes to adopt more fully. As he said in an interview, it's about "leveling up" to him and this album really marks the start of that journey. Having cried so many tears already, he really starts to indulge in some more positivity. Thank goodness.
this album really clap my pussy and make me the slut that i am today. love u PERFUME GENIUS (Edited)
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