Today, Pearly Drops shares their gorgeous sophomore album A Little Disaster. It’s the perfect extension and follow-up to Helsinki-based duo Sandra Tervonen and Juuso Malin’s 2020 debut Call For Help, an absolutely exquisite, multi-textured, otherworldly collection of alt-pop. Their bio on bandcamp states that they craft “eerily haunting pop dirges,” songs “made for keeping the hope inside and the unmeaningful at bay,” and it’s an apt description, once you hear their sound. There’s something softly visceral about their compositions, a tension between the known and unknown, that I find absolutely sensational, and it’s beautifully revisited in A Little Disaster. Although it was rather difficult to pick, we’ve chosen “My Ashes Blow Away” as our favorite out of the bunch, mainly due to the interplay between Tervonen’s darkened, shadowy vocals and the brightness of the synth, evoking an expanse of night pricked with tiny stars. Of course, as indicated by the title, there’s an underlying narrative of anger and yearning; “lately, you have made me insane,” Tervonen admits, the chorus that follows evoking an icy breeze fitting for the feelings of frustration love brings, the way it makes one feel like they’re always at risk of withering into oblivion.
A Little Disaster is out now.
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