One of the US’ finest rising artists Pearl Charles today drops her enchanting new single ‘Does This Song Sound Familiar?’ – listen here. The track follows her recent, fantastic, trippy offering ‘Smoke In The Limousine’.
‘Does This Song Sound Familiar?’ – an exploding serving of sun-soaked, upbeat joy right from the heart of the Mojave Desert – arrives ahead of Pearl’s forthcoming set at The Long Road Festival on Aug 24th, and comes with the announcement of an October UK headline tour, which will see shows in four major UK cities, including her biggest UK headline show to date on October 10th at London’s Omeara.
Of the new track, Pearl explains; “On a hot summer night, sitting alone as the sun went down in its usual spectacular desert fashion, Does This Song Sound Familiar? was born on a gust of Santa Ana wind. Like the same mirages and hallucinogenic visions that have been conjured so many times before in the Mojave Desert I call home, the music and lyrics floated in like peyote-induced psilocybin dream encounters with the deeper levels of my own psyche. This quintessentially desert song explores life, identity, reincarnation and alternate dimensions, likening “the song” to the cycle of life and positing that perhaps we have all been here before, and that we will be here again.”
Pearl has been playing music since she was five years old. At 18, she formed country duo The Driftwood Singers with Christian Lee Hutson, singing and playing guitar and autoharp. After a few fun-filled years immersed in the rock and roll lifestyle, she decided it was time to pursue her own songwriting, and began developing the songs that formed 2015’s eponymous debut EP and additional debut LP that came out in 2018 on Kanine Records. She has headlined national and international dates as well as shared the stage with contemporaries Weyes Blood, Best Coast, Sunflower Bean, Mac Demarco, Conor Oberst, The Teskey Brothers etc, as well as festival plays like ACL, Pickathon and Desert Daze.
Her music career has been a chronological progression from old-time music to 60’s garage and psychedelia, and now more 70’s country and soft rock. Drawn to catchy, poppy hooks and choruses, Pearl draws on what she loves about each era while developing her unique style and voice as a musician, singer, and songwriter.
Tickets for Pearl’s headline tour are available HERE.
August
Sat 24th LUTTERWORTH, The Long Road Festival (Loose Music Stage)
Sat 31st GLASGOW, Last Night (In-Store)
October
Sat 5th GLASGOW, King Tuts
Sun 6th BRISTOL Thekla
Tue 8th MANCHESTER, Deaf Institute
Thu 10th LONDON, Omeara
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