Straddling the yawning divide between Black Sabbath, Bad Brains, the Lunachicks, Public Image Limited, Minor Threat and Babes in Toyland comes Maryland-based spasmodic punkers Pearl. Featuring current and ex-members of Celebration, Wet Brain, Hormone, Alone Time and Mallwalker, as well as the prolific Sienna Cureton-Mahoney — as in, she was (or is) in most of the aforementioned bands — Pearl offers short, aggressive shots of guitar wash hardcore, bass heavy angularity, urbanite rage and the uncomfortable feeling you get when you leave a house show covered in the singer’s dried sweat and spittle.
The Baltimore band have a new album coming down the pipe on 20/20 Records entitled Love & Grief. In the lead up to its April 20th release, they’ve been hitting the promotional circuit with song and video premieres, including Decibel’s airing of the video for “Act Like Sisters” today. When asked about the song and accompanying video, Cureton-Mahoney replied with: “‘Act Like Sisters’ is the epitome of any horror movie in which the lead actress is pushed to her limits, combusting into a Carrie-like fury after being manipulated one too many times. I channeled these women as I wrote the song, reflecting on the few times when I’ve been confronted with the knowledge of someone I respect fully lying to my face. Should I take the high road or should I burn everything to the ground? This song is about the latter. It’s the metaphorical slap of having trust broken and the violent gut reaction that follows. Each song on the album Love & Grief is a different facet on the emotional scale and ‘Act Like Sisters’ is steeped in rage.”
Check out/preorder/further investigate Love & Grief at the band’s Bandcamp or 20/20 Records.
And here’s the Alexa Bristol-directed video for lead off single “Party” because why not…?
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