Pearl & The Oysters, the French-American duo of Joachim Polack and Juliette Davis, have today announced their 3rd album Flowerland, due 3rd September via Feeltrip Records (N. America) and Tip Top Recordings (ROW). To celebrate they have also shared the glistening first single 'Treasure Island'.


The pair met at high school in Paris and bonded over their mutual love for such seemingly unrelated acts as Burt Bacharach, the Pixies, Chico Buarque, or the Zombies. While studying musicology at the Sorbonne and attending jazz school, they began working on a sound that was equally influenced by space age pop of the '50s (as well as its revival in the '90s by bands like Stereolab), and the inspired simplicity of Love You-era Beach Boys.
With the band having recently relocated to LA, Flowerland was intended as the final installment of Pearl & The Oysters’ ‘Florida trilogy,’ begun on their self-titled debut (2017) and continued on Canned Music (2018), a space age odyssey equal parts fawning over the Floweredland’s natural spectacles and mourning the peril that climate change has wrought on it all.

"Treasure Island is the name of a beloved beach town on the Gulf Coast of Florida," say the band. "The TI beachfront is home to a number of pretty iconic 1950s roadside architectural landmarks, like the Thunderbird Resort’s oversize neon sign, which we reference in the opening line of the song. It’s not a hidden-getaway type of spot but to us that beach always radiated a kind of magical healing energy. This song—whose basic rhythm track was composed and recorded in a 10-minute span at Rockaway studio in December 2018—was our humble attempt at bottling Treasure Island’s atmosphere, in musical form. Featuring “the funkiest drum machine ever,” according to Shags."

Pearl & The Oysters - Treasure Island

"Talented fresh face of new music...impress us with a fierce mixture of indie, rock, punk and grunge" The Great Escape

“A fuzz-banger…some might call it garage, some slacker rock, but ultimately the song signifies the beginning of a very promising act already ahead of the curve” My Old Kentucky Blog

“Bring to mind some of the greats such as Pavement. This is actually an anthem. Cassels are at the beginning of their career with genuine talent. Oh, and their surname? Beck. Musical greatness surely awaits.” LWM

Seasick is the debut single from Cassels – a two-piece comprised of two brothers, Jim and Loz Beck (twenty and sixteen years old respectively). Originally from Chipping Norton in West Oxfordshire - now infamous for 'The Chipping Norton Set', the trash bros formed out of a boredom and frustration born from their small town surroundings. With only fields for company the boys wound up playing music together in their bedroom as loud as they pleased. 

Cassels sound is now equal parts stripped back garage rock, dark, heavy distortion and sometimes stadium sized rock riffs. What sets them apart from their noisy two-piece counterparts is their lyrical content. Often dark and brooding, themes of isolation, boredom and a hatred of materialism and greed arise; not something you'd generally associate with your standard sixteen and twenty year olds. They're not just another fucking noisy two-piece.

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Cassels - Seasick

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Cambridge-Chicago-London independent record label formed in 2010 by Ben Rimmer & David Warn

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