PEARL & THE OYSTERS SHARE VIDEO FOR "FIREFLIES" - US TOUR BEGINS THIS SATURDAY

Photo: Sandy Honig

“Fireflies”, a song inspired by the late Ryuichi Sakamoto, explores dream states and insomniac visions. For its video, director Ambar Navarro went for an old sci-fi theme, with Juliette hatching from a pearl. Her character plays on “a daydreaming Tinkerbell type who travels freely from planet to planet. Joachim acts as a controller of the universe while trying to capture Juliette, who has teleportation powers.”

Coast 2 Coast is the product of Pearl & The Oysters’ move from Paris to L.A. via Florida. The album was written mostly in Juliette “Pearl” Davis and Joachim Polack’s 1-bed apartment, and finished with a host of friends and collaborators including Lætitia Sadier (Stereolab), Riley Geare (Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Caroline Rose, La Luz), Alan Palomo (Neon Indian), Dent May, Alex Brettin (Mild High Club), and Shags Chamberlain, who mixed the album. 

Coast 2 Coast explores the idea of travel — physical and mental, experienced and fantasized. It draws on an array of aesthetics and images: Barbarella followed by an Agnès Varda triple bill; the swamps of Florida and sandy L.A. beaches under a mirrorball sun; a radio picking up a faraway broadcast before tuning into an oldies pop station, and crashing waves that melt into the sound of Juliette’s white noise machine. 

Pearl & The Oysters’ Coast 2 Coast Tour

29 April - Los Angeles, CA - Lodge Room
2 May - Sacramento, CA - Starlet Room 
4 May - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios 
5 May - Seattle, WA - Belltown Bloom Festival 
6 May - Boise, ID - Neurolux 
7 May - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court 
9 May - Kansas City - MO - recordBar 
10 May - Minneapolis, MN - Green Room
11 May - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle 
12 May - Detroit, MI - The Magic Bag 
13 May - Kingston, ON - Hotel Wolfe Island
14 May - Montreal, QC - Casa Del Popolo
15 May - Troy, NY - No Fun
17 May - Brooklyn, NY - Elsewhere Zone 1
18 May - Philadelphia, PA - PhilaMoca
19 May - Lancaster, PA - The B Stage
20 May - Washington, DC - Comet Ping Pong
22 May - Charlotte, NC - Snug Harbor
23 May - Athens, GA - 40 Watt Club
24 May - Gainesville, FL - Heartwood Soundstage
26 May - Austin, TX - Mohawk 
27 May - San Antonio, TX - Paper Tiger
29 May - Phoenix, AZ - Trunk Space
31 May - San Francisco, CA - The Chapel
1 Nov - Paris, FR - La Maroquinerie
2 Nov MJC Ô Totem Rilleux-la-Pape (Lyon) France
6 Nov - Glasgow, UK - Broadcast 
7 Nov - Edinburgh, UK - Sneaky Pete’s
8 Nov - Leeds, UK - Hyde Park Book Club
9 Nov - Manchester, UK - The Castle Hotel 
10 Nov - Bristol, UK - The Crofters Right 
11 Nov - London, UK - Pitchfork Festival