FROM BALTIMORE BEAT

PEARL

pearl-music.bandcamp.com
RIYL: Bad Brains, Acid King
Start With: “Doubt”
On Pearl’s Thread, everything’s just a little too fast in a way that feels like it all could topple over at any moment, as if each member of this band’s all in a race to finish these songs before one another. That is not the case. This heavy, speedy music is tricky and easily bored. Often the band will slow down suddenly and seamlessly (it’s trippy), letting in some of what Dan Charnas has called “Dilla time” to the sound of bouncy, fervid doom punk. On vocals, Sienna Cureton-Mahoney (from the absolutely great Wet Brain) brings a wizened rage to it all. On “Control,” Cureton-Mahoney exclaims “control” over and over again and threatens to “put you in a headlock.”