Styrofoam Winos – Pearls
Nashville trio Styrofoam Winos — Lou Turner, Trevor Nikrant, and Joe Kenkel — are back with “Pearls”, the lead single from their forthcoming album Any River, due June 19 on Dear Life Records. Recorded in Louisville and produced by Jim Marlowe, “Pearls” opens the album at a relaxed, propulsive pace that establishes the mood before a note of the rest is heard. The band members are all songwriters and multi-instrumentalists, and that flexibility shows — they swap roles with the kind of ease that only comes from years of playing together in Nashville dive bars and on touring stages.
The song was inspired partly by Frank O’Hara’s poem “Today”, a short, jubilant list of everyday objects that somehow adds up to something larger. Turner picked up on its central argument — that small, ordinary things carry unexpected meaning — and ran with it. “I went on a walk after that and found an oyster on the ground in the middle of the sidewalk,” she explained. “
Will Oldham, who has played alongside the band and contributed to Any River, described their work as “a sweet alignment of forces, cooperative and collaborative.” MJ Lenderman, who has also employed Winos members in his band the Wind, kept it simpler: “They know how to boogie.” Both are right. Styrofoam Winos have been building this kind of communal, warm-toned sound since their self-titled 2021 record — blending folk, country, and a faint strain of New Wave without ever making it feel like a genre exercise. “Pearls” slots right into that lineage, and Any River looks like another careful step forward.
Tracklist:
Gettin’ Down
Pearls
BBQ
Somebody Wants To Send You A Message
I Felt You
New Friend
Swimminin
Next Thing
Off My Mind
Just For You
You’ll Never Take Me Alive
