2022, Perfume released their 27th single, "Flow". The title track, "Flow", was used for the drama "Fight Song" on TBS, and the B-side, "Mawarukagami (polygon wave live ver)", was performed in the <Perfume LIVE 2021 [polygon wave]> in August 14-August 15, 2021. On April 28, 2022, they cancelled appearance at the "Primavera Sound 2022" festival, which was set in June 2022, due to "light of the worldwide spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as well as unstable world situations". On April 29, 2022, Perfume released their digital single, "Sayonara Plastic World". The song was first shown in the April / May broadcast of NHK show, "Minna no Uta". On May 12, 2022, Perfume announced that they would release their 7th studio album, "Plasma", along with a Japanese arena tour in fall. Musical style and image The group's music, on several occasions, has been identified as "technopop". It was around 2005 that the group's original post-Shibuya-kei sound began making a transition to electronic dance-pop music, influenced by 1980s synthpop and incorporating vocoders. Perfume has worked with producer and songwriter Yasutaka Nakata since 2003. "We don't really have any input when Nakata is writing and the ideas behind Future Pop, and all our music, are his," the group told Forbes. "Nakata's been writing songs for us that match the specific time of our lives so that the music has actually matured with us." MTV Iggy said "There are a few reasons why Perfume is one of Japan's most thrilling pop acts. For one thing, there's the music, which is an infectious batch of chart-topping melodies built upon a foundation of intricate maximal house production that would give Daft Punk a run for their money, with heavily processed vocals that stutter robotically yet always sound 100 percent human. On top of that, they have an impeccably designed retro-futuristic image and punishing, innovative choreography that they nevertheless render effortless. Where all of this truly comes together, of course, is on stage." The group has influenced acts like Aira Mitsuki, immi, Mizca, SAWA, Saori@destiny, Sweet Vacation, 80_pan and former labelmate Vanilla Beans. Live performances Discography Game (2008) ⊿ (2009) JPN (2011) Level3 (2013) Cosmic Explorer (2016) Future Pop (2018) Plasma (2022) Media appearances Movies [2011.06.24] Cars 2 - as background music at the party in Tokyo ("Polyrhythm") [2011.09.23] Moteki [2013.03.09]. Doraemon: Nobita's Secret Gadget Museum - Title Track "Mirai No Museum" (Level3). [2015.10.31] WE ARE Perfume