The newest project from Pearl Earl, entitled It’s Dread, exemplifies many aspects of 21st-century living: feelings of despair, social immobility, and frustration with patriarchal values. These anxieties, combined with otherworldly instrumentation and lyricism, create the world that lives within this album. Fronted by Ariel Hartley, Pearl Earl draws upon themes of existentialism and anxiety, and explores gut-twisting feelings outlined by experimental instrumentals, bringing the listener along for an immersive experience, crescendoed with feelings of uplift and hope felt across the album.