Song this magic moment12/27/2023 The approach we take to harnessing inspiration is vital to our abilities as musicians. Since we do not consider ourselves incredibly proficient instrumentalists, a lot is written by ear or “putting our fingers down onto the instruments until we like what we hear.” We’d like to think that what we lack in intent through technical skill, we make up for in our ability to express ourselves through sound, an openness to creative energy, and being ambitious listeners of music that moves us. This keeps intact the intimacy of writing a song completely alone that we would like to express through Pearly. It’s still technically a collaboration, but we are usually never creating in the same room at the same time. For instance, one of us will go into our home studio and start a song, recording as we write, and then at a later date, the other will access what was recorded and add to it. Some of this stems from the insecurities of being unskilled instrumentalists and our learning-as-we-go approach, but also, this requirement of privacy maintains the “single entity” that Pearly was created to be. We are also two people attempting to create as a single entity, which requires a certain amount of privacy from each other when writing. Our writing style is as experimental and lucid as it is a consequence of being amateur. We don’t “jam” and we do not wait for songs to be structured to record. The way that Pearly writes is unconventional. For it to have enough meat to grab onto and evoke a strong mood, but be open for any experience or story to be applied to it. We wanted to create something that had enough depth and variety and was somehow still vague enough to be ethereal. We have always correlated that energy with what it takes to make a good “movie song.” When we wrote Silver of the Mirror, we wanted to put together an album that, in its entirety, could be used as a movie soundtrack. The way that certain music sounds while driving across long, empty roads in the dark, middle of the night, is extremely special to us. We did a lot of night driving on that tour. We wrote and recorded our album Silver of the Mirror in 2020 after our first tour.
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