Magic Mirror is a 2021 release by the wonderful Pearl Charles, I've just discovered it, and I love it. Pearls music takes a definite 70’s aesthetic and contemporizes it to absolutely glorious effect, her compositions have a timeless quality to them without feeling dated. Pearls' voice is versatile, adapting flawlessly and with ease to the nature of the
song she's performing. She has an adorable voice too, it’s captivating and always perfectly
measured for the individual track. Which
ever musical direction she takes, she nails it. This is a nice album.
Nice being an undervalued term, accessible, engaging and always a pleasure
to
listen to, it's rare I don't listen to it twice through. Nice indeed. I love every track though for some
reason I don't feel myself sticks out, lovely sound and feel to it. And behind her, a superb ensemble of clearly accomplished musicians, it's quite the line up too: Ryan Miller – drums, percussion; Connor "Catfish" Gallaher – guitar, pedal steel; Michael Rault – guitar, keyboards; Lewis Pesacov – guitar, keyboards; Max Mart – pedal steel, keyboards; Drew Erickson – keyboards; Mitchell Toshida – keyboards; Farmer Dave Scher – keyboards; Bradleah Mac – horns; Stewart Cole – horns; Matt Popieluch – banjo; Magic Mirror Quartet – strings and of course the wonderful Pearl Charles herself on lead vocals and percussion. There’s a lightness and ease to their combined performances as if the music simply flows through them effortlessly. Check Magic Mirror out here it bloody lovely.
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