Pearly Drops is a duo of Sandra Tervonen and Juuso Malin, whose spin on pop is contemporary, surreal, and uncannily euphoric. Their anticipated upcoming full-length, The Voices Are Coming Back, is out August 29 on Music Website, tracing a surreal, winding journey through Los Angeles. Now, the Finnish band shares their new single, ‘Pillow Face,’ which confronts the downsides of beauty. “Falling out of grace / I don’t know my place / Put a pillow on my face, yeah,'” Tervonen and Malin harmonize in pitch-shifted voices over a dancey beat. The track is accompanied by a vlog-style visualiser including brief cameos from Aziya, Es.cher, and ultra caro.

On the track, Pearly Drops share: “To us ‘Pillow Face’ feels like a quiet scream. This song lives in the tension between vanity and vanishing. It’s a looping lament about the dread of beauty—how we reshape ourselves to be seen, then disappear beneath the very image we create. A soft suffocation wrapped in rhythm, where the search for perfection becomes a silent spiral. With every repetition, the song asks: What happens when the beauty we craft to be noticed becomes the thing that drowns us?

“’Pillow Face’ as well as the previously released single ‘Ratgirl’ are musical sequels of sorts. Both borrow from the New Rave of the early millennium, through a sort of ethereal Slowdive filter.”