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All Music
Anderson is a top-notch crafter of this kind of echoing, harmonically rich, and perfectly lovely dream pop. It may not be the second -- or third to be more precise -- coming of Lush, but it's good to have Anderson back and making music as pretty, sweetly sad, and ultimately comforting as Pearlies
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Record Collector
Anderson says the album’s 10 songs form a loose narrative of journeys and experiences coming to an end, yet at the same time Pearlies points to a bright and fulfilling solo future
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Uncut
While Pearlies often invites comparisons with music by Lush’s many dream-pop descendants Anderson continually finds intriguing ways of deviating from those templates. In so doing, she’s able to nudge the guitar pedals aside and demonstrate that her music still has other places to go. Print edtion only
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The Arts Desk
The balance of autumnal moodiness with immediate melodies is a defining characteristic of ‘Pearlies’
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Loud And Quiet
Genuinely bewitching, reminiscent of the folk-horror sides of Goldfrapp and Broadcast and full of pretty melodies with foreboding underbellies, like TV theme tunes beamed in from an alternate dimension
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Exclaim
More than anything, the pair [James Chapman and Emma Anderson] effectively manage to touch on all the details that fans of Anderson and Lush might hope to hear without pandering or retreading old ground too heavily
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Spectrum Culture
Pearlies is a glowing soufflé of lighter-than-air dreampop that could do with a little more substance – or just more bottom end – but it will easily win over, if not quite satisfy, Anderson’s Lush fanbase
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Mojo
Pearlies has more the feel of a wistful autumnal folk record than any kind of'90s throwback. Print edtion only
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