Pearly Drops drift into dreamlike disillusionment on ‘Ratgirl’
Finnish indie-electronic duo Pearly Drops have unveiled their latest single, ‘Ratgirl,’ a surreal, shape-shifting preview of their forthcoming third album, The Voices Are Coming Back, due August 29, 2025, via Music Website.
Built around a propulsive electroclash rhythm and full of feverish imagery, ‘Ratgirl’ follows the fantasy-infused descent of a character crawling through the walls of a luxury Airbnb in Silver Lake. It’s a twisted take on the Hollywood dream, steeped in Lynchian mysticism and sonic hallucination. The single arrives as a narrative and stylistic continuation of their previous track ‘Mermaid,’ with both songs creating a haunting, dream-logic vision of Los Angeles through Pearly Drops’ distinctive lens.
On the track, Pearly Drops shares:
“‘Ratgirl,’ like the previous single ‘Mermaid,’ drifts further down Talmadge Street, now submerged in a feverish and uncanny night. With a full-on fantasy imagery and certain abruptness — ‘Ratgirl’ is like the weirdest scene in a David Lynch movie. Within this hallucination, becoming a rat crawling through the walls of a luxury Airbnb in Silver Lake feels less like a metaphor and more like a calling.
“In the realm of the real world, ‘Ratgirl’ may be our first work that leans more towards Dance music, fragmentarily attempting to recall the New Rave and Electroclash of the early millennium. As always, Pearly Drops’ Indie Disco most likely feels more tailor-made for the record bag of an imaginary DJ. Think of a foggy, empty, and dirty club with a strobe light tearing through the dark—kind of eerie, kind of intense. That’s the feeling we wanted to bring into the music video.”
‘Ratgirl’ is out now.
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