Pearl Release New Album Read Bandcamp and Luna Collective Features Love And Grief LP Out Today via 20/20 Records

Photo Credit: Josh Sisk STREAM: Pearl - Love And Grief LP Stream LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Pearl - "Spiral" Stream | Watch LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Pearl - "Act Like Sisters" Stream | Watch LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Pearl - "Party" Stream | Watch Baltimore based punk act Pearl today have released their new album Spiral via 20/20 Records. The album and its singles "Spiral," "Act Like Sisters," and "Party," have earned praise and support from Bandcamp ('Cool Band Alert' feature), Luna Collective (feature), Under The Radar (premiere), New Noise, Loud Women, and more. Over the years, Pearl has made a big name for themselves in the Maryland scene, with their frenetic and bass heavy sets rooted in hardcore and electronic music. The group was founded in 2018 by Sienna Cureton-Mahoney (vox) and Tommy Rouse (guitar), who were shortly thereafter joined by Jesse Hutchison (bass) and Flynn DiGuardia (drums) in 2019. All members of Pearl have been in a variety of musical projects including Celebration, Wet Brain, Hormone, Alone Time and Mallwalker. 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. 'Review by Pierce Jordan': Pearl are very much a product of the continued renaissance in Baltimore punk and hardcore that has most recently produced bands like Doubt, Civilian, Sinister Feeling, Skällar, Vicious Order, and FightBack, to name a few. Excitingly, none of those bands mentioned sound alike. Right now, it truly seems like people are playing whatever they want in the city of the jickleyang; whether it’s fast, slow, a celebration of an old style, or an attempt at untrod ground, there truly seems to be something for everyone.  Pearl does all of this simultaneously on their newly released sophomore album Love & Grief; the quartet jumps from mid-tempo mosh grooves to garage rock while interspersing each stylistic deviation with heavy doses of straightforward stomping-ass hardcore punk. Quite a number of songs feature electronic interludes created by drummer Flynn DiGuardia in tandem with a mysterious presence credited only as “Gardner,” and range from hyperpop to trap to synthwave, adding a significant dynamic shift from the high energy rhythms bashed out by by DiGuardia, bassist Jesse Hutchison, and guitarist Tommy Rouse.  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. Love And Grief LP is out today via 20/20 Records. Love And Grief - TRACKLISTING 01. Spiral 02. Coward 03. Deal 04. Party 05. Discipline  06. Sleep 07. Act Like Sisters 08. Exercise 09. Bad Seed 10. Spy 11. Paula Dean Pearl Bio: Pearl is a punk 4 piece from Baltimore, Maryland. Their energetic and bass heavy sets have roots in hardcore and electronic music. The group was founded in 2018 by Sienna Cureton-Mahoney (vox) and Tommy Rouse (guitar), who were shortly thereafter joined by Jesse Hutchison (bass) and Flynn DiGuardia (drums) in 2019. All members of Pearl have been in a variety of musical projects including Celebration, Wet Brain, Hormone, Alone Time and Mallwalker. 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. PEARL LINKS Bandcamp | Instagram | Spotify