Pearl & The Oysters

Pearl & the Oysters, international adventurers in eclectic pop, crash-landed their starship in Los Angeles in the year 2020. Born and schooled in Paris, the couple launched a nomadic romance fueled by music that would later see them crooning in New York jazz clubs, then wading the swampy waters of American DIY art rock in Gainesville, Florida. Today in L.A., the band's evolving sound complements a buoyant moment in a scene where their brand of space age jazz-pop is more than welcome. For the band's second LP on Stones Throw, Juju and Jojo welcome the familiar fans climbing aboard the Oysters' signature rocket ride to paradise. Planet Pearl, true to form, is a hypnotic vision-quest conjuring moonlight, tropical waters, exotic botany and buzzing things in flight. But it isn't all bubbles and fizz in Oysterville. Having always played imaginatively with the personae of crash-landed aliens, on Planet Pearl our voyaging strangers sing to the alienation of a journey closer to reality—navigating the daunting environs of Los Angeles, the digital age of creation-as-content, and the rootlessness of long cross-continental tours.