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Pearl & The Oysters - Monkey Mind - Import Mint Green Vinyl LP Record
Pearl & The Oysters - Monkey Mind - Import Mint Green Vinyl LP Record
Vinyl Record
Jazz
Jazz Pop
June 26, 2026
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Catalog No.: LPSTH2524C
JAN/ISBN: 659457252410
Number of Discs: 1
Record Size: 12”
Country/Region of Manufacture: Import
Credits:
Pearl & The Oysters
Description:
Everything Pearl & the Oysters have released since their 2018 debut Canned Music has been delightful and that remains the case on their album from 2026, Monkey Mind. Their brand of pop music -- which mashes up soft rock, space age pop, ye-ye, city pop, and cocktail jazz -- remains as fresh as ever, and the duo of Joachim Polack and Juliette Davis took extra pains to keep it that way. They recorded quickly with producer Jonathan Rado, putting the music directly on tape and keeping the overdubs to a minimum. One listening would never know as it sounds as blissfully smooth as ever, the electric pianos, flutes, harmonies, and gentle vibes coming together like a sonic hug. The duo needed a real one during the making of the album as they were living in Los Angeles near the wildfires that swept through the city in 2025. Many of their friends were directly affected and Davis in particular was downcast. The music brought them out of the gloom, and much of the album has the same sunny outlook of their previous work. "Wide Awake" is a strutting soft rocker with some very nice guitar work, "Shinkansen" is a sleek synth pop instrumental thats so shimmery it threatens to blind anyone foolish enough to look directly at it, and "Stratford & 52" is a fun slice of jazz-adjacent soft rock with very loose limbs. To go along with the songs that have the feel of the duo at their most cheerful, there are quite a few references to the dark mood and troubled times. "Mandarin Moon"s lyrics reference the fires directly, "Doom Mood"s unhappy words belie its peppy cha-cha rhythms and swanky organ swells, and the very deceptively hooky and happy sounding "Lights Out" pulls off that neat trick of balancing very dark lyrics with the breeziest music and vocals. Some very pretty ballads also help tip the scale in favor of pleasant melancholy, especially the Beach Boys-in-space sounding "A Pocket Symphony" which pairs Davis open-hearted vocals with a spiraling melody thats bolstered by a wealth of chiming bells, synth whooshes, and celestial harps. Both that song and the intimately epic "Portopia-Mermaid Parade" feel like the group levelling up, emotionally and musically. Its rare for a band to keep getting better and more interesting over time, but Pearl & the Oysters are one of the exceptions to the rule and Monkey Mind is exhibit A as to why. ~ Tim Sendra
Tracklisting:
1.Sound Asleep
2.Wide Awake
3.Stratford; 52
4.Mandarin Moon
5.Solar Return
6.A Pocket Symphony
7.Doom Mood
8.Tracy Hills
9.Shinkansen
10.Portopia: Mermaid Parade
11.Lights Out
12.Sound Asleep (Reprise)
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