Pearly Drops share the single “Mermaid” via Music Website, which is a collaboration with Australian indie rockers Cub Sport. The song opens with gold flecked guitar riffs and pitch manipulated vocals, before a bloopy drum machine groove eventually leads things to a heavenly ambient outro. Inspired by the decline of Hollywood glamour, ‘Mermaid’ is at once glum and angelic.
On the track, Pearly Drops shares: “In this song, among other things, the glamorous Hollywood scenarios have already been turned upside down, the decline has begun and, for example, a persona as a mermaid in the sewers of Sunset Boulevard seems like a more attractive sidequest. We met the Australian pop group Cub Sport in Los Angeles and by chance we ended up in Helsinki to work on music. Cub Sport’s Tim felt a connection with the song ‘Mermaid,’ which we were working on at the time and the ethereal opera of the final section was born in an instant. We were also attracted by the idea of wasting the opportunity of such a feat, meaning that the end result would be a feat without any interpretable words.”