Pearl & The Oysters includes Juliette Pearl Davis (Juju) and Joachim Polack (Jojo), today announce their new album, Planet Pearl, will drop on September 20th via Stones Throw records. Written, composed, and produced by Pearl & The Oysters, Planet Pearl also includes the addition of Producer Teo Halm (Rosalía, J Balvin, Omar Apollo) on more select songs and musicians Alex Brettin of Mild High Club, Brijean Murphy and other friends and collaborators throughout.

Accompanying today’s announcement is the AOR-indebted/yacht rock-tinged “depressed disco” song “Big Time” which casts a skeptical eye on sun-drenched, seemingly carefree Los Angeles with a vibrant music video directed by Nikki Milan Houston. The video is a spin on an 80s B-movie, inspired by John Carpenter’s alien flick “They Live.” “It’s our version of an LA-centric mini-musical,” says Houston. “It showcases the inhabitants of Planet Pearl as they pose for their own kind of postcard.”

The influence of Brazilian music is strong all throughout Planet Pearl – 1/2 of the duo (Jojo)’s PhD was on the composer Antônio Carlos Jobi – as is the concept of saudade, the melancholic longing for a beloved yet absent something or someone. “Big Time” is inspired by the Brazilian singer-songwriter Chico Buarque’s “Construção”, with the lyrics written in rhyming couplets. The main harmonic and melodic influence for the song was the Doobie-Brothers-to-Rita-Lee pipeline also featuring Teo Halm on bass Parcel’s Jules Crommelin on drums, guitar and backing vocals, and Brijean’s Brijean Murphy: on percussion.

Pearl & The Oysters first met on their first day of high school in Paris, and have been making music together ever since. The two moved across the Atlantic in 2015 after pursuing musicology degrees at Sorbonne University, with a brief stint in Gainesville, Florida, where Polack pursued his PhD in musicology eventually crash landing in Los Angeles.

Pearl & The Oysters
Planet Pearl
Tracklist
Stones Throw Records

Side Quest
Halfway There?
Together, Alone
Phototropic
Cruise Control
A Planet Upside Down
Ripples
Big Time
Triangular Girl
Feed The Meter
I Fell Into a Piano
4D
Mid City

Pearl & The Oysters 2024 Tour Dates

Europe

11 August – Venlo, The Netherlands – Zomerparkfeest
16 August – Geneva, Switzerland – Piz Palü
18 August – Le Juch, France – Chez Hubert

USA

10/16/2024 – Brooklyn, NY – Elsewhere (Zone One)
10/17/2024 – Philadelphia, PA – PhilaMOCA
10/18/2024 – Washington D.C. – Comet Ping Pong
10/19/2024 – Raleigh, NC – Neptunes
10/21/2024 – Gainesville, FL – The Wooly
10/23/2024 – Atlanta, GA – 529 Bar
10/24/2024 – Nashville, TN – The Blue Room
10/26/2024 – Denton, TX – Rubber Gloves
10/27/2024 – Austin, TX – Mohawk
10/29/2024 – Phoenix, AZ – Last Exit
11/03/2024 – Los Angeles, CA – Echoplex

Pre-order Planet Pearl HERE