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Baltimore punk 4 piece, Pearl, has made a name for themselves in the Maryland scene, honing their energetic and bass heavy sets over the years. Today, the band has announced their new LP Love And Grief, due out April 20th via 20/20 Records. They’ve also released lead driving, forceful lead single “Party,” which is accompanied by an Alexa Bristol directed video.
Describing the power house that is Pearl, Steve Johnson says, “Flynn Diguardia and Jesse Hutchinson are an intuitive and fluid rhythm section who rather seamlessly (far as I can tell) slide the tempo right where they want it. DiGuardia’s body of work is remarkably diverse… Sienna Cureton-Mahoney’s voice will break into a scream and traffics in a rasp with each syllable clear as sunlight on glass, providing as much texture as Tommy Rouse’s winding procession of power chords.”
Love & Grief was recorded, mixed, and mastered with Steve Wright at Wrightway Studios in Baltimore, and the record sits just a step or two past being the middle-ground between completely raw and high-fidelity with punchy drums supporting the blown out vocals of singer Sienna Cureton-Mahoney, who sounds like the physical and spiritual embodiment of the phrase, “say it with your chest.” Generally, Love & Grief hits as a forward-thinking work that reveals the tastes of the band outside of punk and hardcore as much more than the sum of their parts.
