Even Charles' voice is a comfort after a decade of mainstream mumblers and overwrought affectations, her enunciated vocal style brings a conversational tone to the songs. Almost all of our vinyl discs will include either an original inner sleeve, or a plain inner sleeve, or a printed inner sleeve, which we provide with the sole purpose of protecting the record. You can hear the confidence in both the music and the vocals in a polished album that leans on 70s pop mechanics but brings Pearl Charles’ own sense of wonder and passion to every track. Neither basking in its vintage flavor nor overplaying its strengths, Magic Mirror is the kind of subtle record that reveals its pleasures through repeated listens. Magic Mirror is testament to an artist that knows who she is, knows where she wants to be and is grabbing the bull by both horns. The production and arrangements throughout are impeccable, warm, and well-suited to the kind of thoughtful, low-key songwriting at which Charles excels. A A A With her third album, Magic Mirror, Los Angeles-born Pearl Charles upgrades 60’s and 70’s pop and soft-rock templates, exploring such perennial themes as loss, identity crisis, and relational flux. "Sweet Sunshine Wine" is another standout whose easy hooks give way to a marvelously campy psychedelic breakdown.
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After this, Charles finds her groove, turning in a bevy of tightly crafted gems that flirt with various facets of '70s pop, from the Fleetwood Mac stylings of "What I Need" and "Slipping Away" to the sweet "All the Way," which pairs swooping George Harrison-esque guitar leads with bubblegum uplift. Los Angeles songstress Pearl Charles follows up her 2018 debut with a gussied up version of her brand of country disco on Magic Mirror out January 15. As merry a romp as it is, opener "Only for Tonight" sets a bit of a misleading tone as both its boisterous mood and ABBA-inspired disco-pop are never again repeated during the set. Her 2018 debut, Sleepless Dreamer, showed plenty of promise and laid the framework for the more fully realized sound she achieves here.
The Los Angeles native has been bubbling under the radar for nearly a decade, trying her hand in a variety of indie subsets from lo-fi Americana to garage and psychedelia before landing on a more polished amalgam of vintage-flavored country-pop and West Coast soft rock.
In a pleasing tangle of sun-warmed melodies and 1970s influences, Pearl Charles strikes a confident, if laid-back tone on Magic Mirror, her sophomore album. Pearl Charles - Magic Mirror By Nathan McLaren Stewart, JanuFilled with infectious, 70s-kissed sounds and lucid journeys of self-discovery, Pearl Charles' second full-length record is a 10-track trip through heartbreak and fragility - with an added dose of country disco.
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