Music reviews: Perfume Genius, Momma, Elton John & Brandi Carlile

'Glory' by Perfume Genius

Perfume Genius' new album is "so stylistically ambitious that it should immediately be considered his greatest invention," said David Feigelson in Paste. In the music Mike Hadreas has made under that name since 2008, "there is always a longing." But the current version of Hadreas seems more grounded, and the musicians he's surrounded himself with "contribute immeasurably to the depth in texture of the record" as Glory moves from the R.E.M.-like guitars of "It's...