Pearl & The Oysters - Hamburg, Molotow (Top Ten Bar)
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Pearl & The Oysters
01.12.2026 | Hamburg | Molotow (Top Ten Bar)
Einlass: 19:00 | Beginn: 20:00
Pearl & The Oysters, the duo of Juliette Pearl Davis (Juju) and Joachim Polack (Jojo), formed a decade ago in Paris, where they lived until they were young adults. Together, they make music a lot like their current base of Los Angeles: sunny on the surface, darker and more layered at its roots. Their fizzy, squiggly lounge pop – now leaning toward ‘70s piano rock as well as Brazilian, exotica and city pop influences – asks how to live with uncertainty and disquiet.
In January 2025, as Trump’s second inauguration loomed and wildfires raged through LA. Juju stayed up all night crying. The next morning, she woke to find that Jojo had written a song for her, “Wide Awake,” a calm offering in the midst of panic. From that moment, the process of creating Monkey Mind began.
Monkey Mind is Pearl & The Oysters’ first truly LA record. If earlier albums evoked the humidity of Gainesville, Florida, and their Stones Throw albums Coast 2 Coast and Planet Pearl cast them as nomads figuring out where to call home, Monkey Mind is firmly rooted in LA. It’s full of poolside bops, sirens in the distance, the squawks of a neighbourhood parrot, psychedelic ice-cream trucks, and helicopters overhead. Both an urgent document of its time and “kind of like a giant hug”, Monkey Mind sees Pearl & The Oysters find in pain, a punchline; in disaster, a balm; in loneliness, connection.
01.12.2026 | Hamburg | Molotow (Top Ten Bar)
Einlass: 19:00 | Beginn: 20:00
Pearl & The Oysters, the duo of Juliette Pearl Davis (Juju) and Joachim Polack (Jojo), formed a decade ago in Paris, where they lived until they were young adults. Together, they make music a lot like their current base of Los Angeles: sunny on the surface, darker and more layered at its roots. Their fizzy, squiggly lounge pop – now leaning toward ‘70s piano rock as well as Brazilian, exotica and city pop influences – asks how to live with uncertainty and disquiet.
In January 2025, as Trump’s second inauguration loomed and wildfires raged through LA. Juju stayed up all night crying. The next morning, she woke to find that Jojo had written a song for her, “Wide Awake,” a calm offering in the midst of panic. From that moment, the process of creating Monkey Mind began.
Monkey Mind is Pearl & The Oysters’ first truly LA record. If earlier albums evoked the humidity of Gainesville, Florida, and their Stones Throw albums Coast 2 Coast and Planet Pearl cast them as nomads figuring out where to call home, Monkey Mind is firmly rooted in LA. It’s full of poolside bops, sirens in the distance, the squawks of a neighbourhood parrot, psychedelic ice-cream trucks, and helicopters overhead. Both an urgent document of its time and “kind of like a giant hug”, Monkey Mind sees Pearl & The Oysters find in pain, a punchline; in disaster, a balm; in loneliness, connection.
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Molotow, Reeperbahn 136,Hamburg, Germany
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