Girl In The Half Pearl

LA-based, Dallas-raised artist Liv.e, announces her sophomore album 'Girl In The Half Pearl' due February 10th via In Real Life. 'Girl In The Half Pearl' seizes on both the creative and personal liberation Liv.e has experienced in the time since her 2020 debut album 'Couldn't Wait To Tell You...'. The album's 17 tracks are a document of self-examination, as she works through realizations prompted by grief and grapples with the dynamics of her role in the relationships in her life. Building upon the foundation she laid with CWTTY, 'Girl In The Half Pearl' bares her process of growth, forgiveness and reclamation of her sense of womanhood across an immersive soundscape. The album's artistic shifts developed during her time experimenting with live performance in London earlier this year while under residency at London's Laylow. The 24-year-old artist first garnered attention with her 2017 EP, FRANK, and 2018's Hoopdreams EP. Over the past year, Liv.e shared the standalone Mndsgn-produced single "Bout It," along with a COLORS performance and released 'CWTTY+', the deluxe version of her 2020 critically-acclaimed debut album. She's since performed alongside Earl Sweatshirt and Ravyn Lenae. Liv.e's unique sensibilities have also caught the eye of the fashion world, marked by an appearance in a Miu Miu ad campaign photographed by Tyrone Lebon. Most recently, she was featured on the new Mount Kimbie single titled "a deities encore."

Liv.e’s brilliant second album bends her expressive R&B into fearsome new shapes, acknowledging all the nuance and pain on the long journey to personal truth.

Liv.e's inventive early releases were often low-key, vibey efforts, featuring sung and spoken vocals set to syrupy rhythms that would fit snugly on lo-fi beat tapes.

Shape-shifting and soulful, Liv.e has been a quietly potent force in alternative R&B and hip-hop for years.

Girl In The Half Pearl by Liv.e: a beautifully timed, stylstically adventurous follow-up from the LA-via-Dallas artist

Liv.e's second album Girl In The Half Pearl is the sound of reinvention stuck in a loop. Weaving an abstract web of lo-fi hiphop, spectral soul, ambient noise and retrofuturistic breakbeat, it's clear the Los Angeles-based artist and producer has zero interest in achieving cohesion at this stage of her career. The album's 41 minute,