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SUMMARY:Pearl and The Oysters
LOCATION:MOTH Club
DESCRIPTION:FORM Presents\n\nPEARL & THE OYSTERS\n\n\\+ Special Guests\n\nP
 earl & The Oysters\, the duo of Juliette Pearl Davis (Juju) and Joachim Po
 lack (Jojo)\, formed a decade ago in Paris\, where they lived until they w
 ere young adults. Together\, they make music a lot like their current base
  of Los Angeles: sunny on the surface\, darker and more layered at its roo
 ts. Their fizzy\, squiggly lounge pop – now leaning toward ‘70s piano 
 rock as well as Brazilian\, exotica and city pop influences – asks how t
 o live with uncertainty and disquiet.\n\nIn January 2025\, as Trump’s se
 cond inauguration loomed and wildfires raged through LA. Juju stayed up al
 l night crying. The next morning\, she woke to find that Jojo had written 
 a song for her\, “Wide Awake\,” a calm offering in the midst of panic.
  From that moment\, the process of creating Monkey Mind began.\n\nPearl & 
 The Oysters’ new album Monkey Mind takes its title from the Buddhist con
 cept of a restless\, looping consciousness: thoughts jumping\, spiraling a
 nd rarely settling. Produced by Jonathan Rado (Weyes Blood\, The Lemon Twi
 gs\, Father John Misty)\, the record follows that cycle across the span of
  a day\, beginning in a state of calm before the mind wakes up\, gathers s
 peed\, and eventually softens again.\n\nFollowing a “primal and direct
 ” instinct rather than retreating into long\, meticulous processes\, Juj
 u and Jojo chose to work quickly\, writing their sixth album in a matter o
 f weeks. “We felt a need to tap into a certain urgency and honesty\, as 
 a result of our growing malaise with a cultural climate plagued by digital
  alienation and generative AI slop\,” says the duo.\n\nUsing the 24-hour
  framework as a creative constraint\, the record opens with Randy Newman-l
 ike piano\, peaceful and half-asleep\, before the energy shifts to the fid
 gety yacht rock guitar of “Mandarin Moon”\, fast-paced instrumental 
 “Shinkansen”\, and the frantic ‘70s funk of “Stratford & 52” –
  the street the duo lived on when they first moved to LA. At the center is
  Juju and Jojo’s long-standing relationship: on “A Pocket Symphony\,
 ” they look back to their creative and romantic partnership\, which bega
 n in high school.\n\nJuju and Jojo’s eco-anxieties came into immediate f
 ocus as they worked on Monkey Mind. LA’s wildfires threatened not just t
 he city but the network of friends and collaborators they had built around
  them. At the same time\, that community\, a circle of LA musicians who ap
 pear across the album\, helped to ground them. The record recognizes both 
 sides of that experience: fear of loss\, and relief at not being alone.\n
 \nAfter years of building intricate\, home-recorded worlds\, for their new
  album\, Juju and Jojo wanted to open the process up and capture something
  less controlled. Sharing similar “musical obsessions” including Todd 
 Rundgren\, The Beach Boys\, Steely Dan\, and “early-tronic sonorities”
 \, they knew Jonathan Rado would be the perfect fit. Recording to tape wit
 h minimal overdubs meant they could take a “no-demo\, no-click\, live-to
 -tape approach\,” which mirrored the rawness and immediacy of the writin
 g process. “Every day felt like summer camp\,” says Juju. The environm
 ent was playful and freeing\, and aside from one time when Rado’s poodle
 s got into a stash of Kinder chocolate\, the sessions “were all joy\,”
  says Jojo.\n\nMonkey Mind is Pearl & The Oysters’ first truly LA record
 . If earlier albums evoked the humidity of Gainesville\, Florida\, and the
 ir Stones Throw albums Coast 2 Coast and Planet Pearl cast them as nomads 
 figuring out where to call home\, Monkey Mind is firmly rooted in LA. It
 ’s full of poolside bops\, sirens in the distance\, the squawks of a nei
 ghbourhood parrot\, psychedelic ice-cream trucks\, and helicopters overhea
 d. Both an urgent document of its time and “kind of like a giant hug”
 \, Monkey Mind sees Pearl & The Oysters find in pain\, a punchline\; in di
 saster\, a balm\; in loneliness\, connection.\n\nBoletos: https://dice.fm/
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