• Record Label: Matador
  • Release Date: Jun 22, 2010
User Score
8.3

Universal acclaim- based on 29 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 29
  2. Negative: 2 out of 29
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  1. Jan 9, 2021
    6
    nice simple guitar ballad record with swift ambient production . it's well written and for a debut album it is very idiosyncratic . the stories sound like precursors to the depth of his latter work. the only fault in this beautiful small record is the indulgence of instrumentals and the lack of variety in songs which tend to blend into each other. Favorites :Mr. Peterson, Learning, gay angels.

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Metascore
82

Universal acclaim - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 11
  2. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. 80
    Hadreas is one of the strongest songwriters we've seen develop this year, and Learning puts that on display beautifully.
  2. Feb 17, 2012
    80
    His songs are delicate but strong, faint yet persistent, and have a deep, almost inexplicable emotional pull.
  3. Feb 17, 2012
    65
    Each song here, when attention is paid, is gut wrenching, honest and unabashedly sad while maintaining a sense of resigned acceptance... The arrangements and production, however, tend to drown out Perfume Genius's ability to juggle his subject matter, leaving songs that just don't quite break your heart.