Pearl Earl got real about the last few years with an album titled — what else? — 'It's Dread.'
It's a record that influenced her creativity in the recording ofAt a 1991 concert in San Francisco, R&B and soul music great Aaron Neville dedicated a song to famed concert promoter Bill Graham, but not before recalling a story about him.
But not every creative spirit can resist succumbing to the dread and despair of the times. Add to this camp Ariel Hartley of Los Angeles/Denton transplants Pearl Earl, whose upcoming album is appropriately titled“A lot of [the record] is kind of ridden with this mental strife and inner turmoil,” says Hartley over the phone from her home in Los Angeles.
“It felt like a giant ant pile that got stepped on,” Hartley said of the social climate in Minneapolis following Floyd’s murder. “The ant pile and the whole city is on fire, and everyone’s buzzing with tense energy and anger. There’s so many people coming together, though, too, to stand up for a bigger cause.”
Between the racial unrest, the pandemic and the tail of the apex of the MeToo movement, it was all too much to simply ignore. In’s title track , Hartley sings with such a cadence, but sonically and thematically, it’s not all murk and melancholy. The song “Jock Goth” was particularly inspired by 1990s dance pop and Europop. Hartley compared it to the soundtrack to.
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