Pearl Harbor are sister duo Piper and Skyler Caplan.  Right off – that’s cool.  There are few sister duos in a band (was the last one Heart?).  What is even stranger is Skyler’s age – fourteen and an already a  massive guitar shredder on the Hollywood scene.  14!  How crazy?  What’s ever cooler is their ability to write pitch perfect pop songs.  What I have heard of their recorded out put is nothing less than a verification of Ariel Pink’s summer time rock’n'roll fantasies.  Ariel Pink is the infamous pop scenester whose influence is leaving a bizarre magical dust over the stoned citizens of the California musical scene.  Pink’s recording methods have left an option for any teenager who has a song in them, to go forth and put it out.

Pearl Harbor’s EP ‘Something About The Chaparrals’ is coming out on Mexican Summer, but their future hit single ‘LUV Goon’ has already been on the internets for free download.  It is a pure jingle jangle sun drenched song straight outta of the Hollywood Babylon. Their sisterly harmonies are reminiscent of Wendy and Bonnie and Mamas and the Papas.  Their songwriting skills are pure sci-fi.  I can’t stop listening to the weirded out confection of LUV Goon.  Pearl Harbor are taking their fractal pop, twisting and manipulating it until it becomes something very odd, and yet, captivating.  Media tagged as ‘hauntology’, Pearl Harbor aren’t haunting anyone, yet.  They are making demo-as-aesthetic choice, and in their lo-fi comforts, they are bathing their songs in echo and feedback.  Their methods maybe budget, but the songwriting?  Anything but.  You should get on it.