Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder (Vinyl) Chch New Pearly’s music is largely guitar

Pearly’s music is largely guitar driven alt-rock with influences from Ōtepoti’s current noisy scene mixed in with its own tendencies

Seminal tracks such as Michigan and Smiley’s ‘Nice Up The Dance’

electronic beats and noir-pop soundscapes

came with six double-sided inserts/art cards of alternative cover images depicting cardboard cutouts of the band members in a variety of situations

making room for the internal monologues and imagined dialogues you might not otherwise dare to hear

Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder (Vinyl) Chch New Pearly’s music is largely guitarCarried by its almost impossibly infectious eponymous opening track, The Sidewinder helped foreshadow the sounds of boogaloo and soul jazz with its healthy R&B influence and Latin tinge. While the rest of the album retreats to a more conventional hard bop sound, Morgan's compositions are forward thinking and universally solid. Only 25 at the time of its release, Morgan was accomplished (and perhaps cocky) enough to speak of mentoring the great Joe