Do you want to be whisked away to another world? If you do, Pearl Harbor are for you. The music made by sisters Piper and Skylar has the kind of hazy, sunny, blurry quality that befits their southern Californian roots. It’s music for beach parties and sunrises, the sound of an endless summer with nothing to do and all day to do it.
Pearl Harbor’s story begins in 2008 when the sisters started plucking guitars, writing a bunch of tunes and playing some shows around Los Angeles. Very quickly, they acquired a rep for their trippy, pychedelic, technicolor pop.
Dig-outs from Haunted Graffiti's Cole Greif-Neill and The Soft Pack's Matty McLaughlin led to the Mexican Summer label. The result is a debut EP, Something About the Chapparals, which cherry-picks from Pearl Harbor's DIY CD releases.
There's oodles of potential here. While their sound chimes perfectly with today's slo-mo, out-of-focus acts such as Best Coast and Washed Out, there's a very pleasant 1970s AM radio shimmer to tunes such as Luv Goonand Sunburn, which augers well for the future.
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