Pearl Unleashes ‘Party,’ a Kinetic Preview of ‘Love And Grief’
Baltimore’s heavy music ecosystem is currently fracturing in the best possible way, and Pearl sits right at the fault line. We are thrilled to premiere ‘Party,’ a jagged, driving slab of noise that serves as the lead offensive for the band’s upcoming LP, ‘Love And Grief.’
Arriving April 20th via 20/20 Records, the album sees the quartet doubling down on the visceral intensity honed in Maryland’s basements, while simultaneously blowing the walls out with unexpected texture. The track arrives alongside a visual treatment directed by Alexa Bristol, matching the song’s forceful, serrated edge.
Recorded and mixed with Steve Wright at Wrightway Studios, the new record refuses to stay in a singular lane. It is a document of a band that understands the rules of hardcore well enough to break them, incorporating electronic flourishes and mosh-heavy grooves without losing the plot.
Pearl is inspired by a wide array of punk, hardcore and metal music of the last 50 years; their influences range from 80s hardcore/post punk bands like Black Sabbath, Death, Bad Brains and Public Image Limited to the 90s bands like Bikini Kill, Babes in Toyland and Nirvana, to post 2000 influences from Nu-Metal and Electronica. Their high intensity live performances keep audiences on edge with simultaneously unexpected and seamless time changes, driving drum beats, heavy breakdowns and confrontational vocals.
