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- Summary: The debut full-length solo release from Lush's Emma Anderson was produced and mixed by Maps' James Chapman.
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- Record Label: Sonic Cathedral
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Oct 19, 2023While Pearlies often invites comparisons with music by Lush’s many dream-pop descendants – “The Presence” and “Tonight Is Mine” being just two songs here that Beach House will wish they’d crafted – Anderson continually finds intriguing ways of deviating from those templates. In so doing, she’s able to nudge the guitar pedals aside and demonstrate that her music still has other places to go.
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Oct 23, 2023It’s a successful enough reinvention for Anderson surely to be wondering why she didn’t make a solo record sooner.
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Oct 19, 2023Anderson says the album’s 10 songs form a loose narrative of journeys and experiences coming to an end, yet at the same time Pearlies points to a bright and fulfilling solo future.
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Oct 20, 2023It may not be the second -- or third to be more precise -- coming of Lush, but it's good to have Anderson back and making music as pretty, sweetly sad, and ultimately comforting as Pearlies.
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Oct 19, 2023More than anything, the pair [James Chapman and Emma Anderson] effectively manage to touch on all the details that fans of Anderson and Lush might hope to hear without pandering or retreading old ground too heavily.
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MojoOct 19, 2023Pearlies has more the feel of a wistful autumnal folk record than any kind of'90s throwback. [Dec 2023, p.92]