But of course! It's Abba's Dancing Queen, that eternal masterpiece of truly popular music. Pearl Charles, a young Californian with the face of a neo-hippie Madonna, undoubtedly loves the Swedish band as much as Fleetwood Mac, Carole King, Randy Newman or her contemporary, Lana Del Rey.
Pearl Charles - Only For Tonight
kanine recordsMagic Mirror is her second album. This magic mirror is a rear-view mirror, which takes us back to the 70s, when everything was tinged with disco, when the music was played on a cassette car radio, at sunset. The mellow vintage keyboards, the weeping pedal-steel and the high-vaulting choirs take Pearl Charles's pop songs to an inherently Californian nirvana.
Pearl Charles - Take Your Time
kanine recordsShe is not inventing anything new, but she is replaying it all with inspiration, in a hazy halo of reverie and melancholy, a bit like Sofia Coppola at the time of the film Virgin Suicides. Pearl Charles also reminds us of gem, Lavender Diamond, another Californian female band with watercolour country-pop songs. Destined to make the listener nostalgic, this ravishing album looks like a summer love. In the middle of winter, it is always a good tonic.
