Pearl & The Oysters - Flowerland (2021) Hi-Res

It took two great records for Pearl & The Oysters to get everyone to agree. The Franco-American group had reached grace with their latest album by the name of Canned Music released at the end of 2018. At the end of summer, they are playing overtime with their expected successor as the Messiah by the name of Flowerland.

Juliette Pearl Davis and Joachim Pollack roll up their sleeves by offering us beautiful summer vibes with their sunny and psychedelic music still smelling the 1960s. And Flowerland starts off with a bang with a "Soft Science" inviting Kuo from the group Sunset Rollercoaster where Pearl & The Oysters infuses atmospheres that are a bit synthetic but still just as heavenly. This is also the case with the intoxicating "Bit Valley" and "Treasure Island" perfectly dressing the voice of Juliette Pearl Davis.

Pearl & The Oysters seems to have taken inspiration from tropicalia and lounge music for this third musical journey on the way to carefree. This is particularly the case for the listening to the groovy and voluptuous title track but also to a cover of Caetano Veloso which is "Baby" without forgetting the pleasant "Crocodiles" and "Evening Sun". The Franco-American duo exiled in California therefore favors a chill but inventive psychedelic pop with "Candy" and "Satellite" and goes equally well to oriental lands on "Wizzo" or instrumental with "Osteroid Asteroid" very Air in the soul.

It will only take other tangy pearls such as the cinematic and shimmering "Rocket Show" for Pearl & The Oysters to reach grace. Flowerland is therefore a sublime sparkling musical bouquet that makes us want to take off while driving on the West Coast of California with our hair in the wind.