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Plastic Mermaids

It's Not Comfortable To Grow

    The Independent - 5 star Glastonbury set review “Making their Glastonbury review, IOW collective Plastic Mermaids are a joy to behold at the Croissant-Neuf stage.” New single 'Girl Boy Girl' Girl Boy Girl is an uncomfortable place, an unspoken awkwardness and tension. Always convoluting, never resolving. Just like this perpetual frustration when a relationship isn’t right but none has the language or understanding to fix it. And then thinking that adding a 3rd party to the mix is going to solve the problems…oh dear. We took some inspiration from the song ‘Night Call’ on the Drive soundtrack and also some of the slower Daft Punk tunes. Kinda wanted it to feel like something you’d stick on cruising in your car after dark in the 80’s. It has been two years since Plastic Mermaids released their critically acclaimed debut ‘Suddenly Everyone Explodes’, and now they return to spread some eagerly awaited blissed out joy with new single Disco Wings & b side Environmental with their second album due next year. The band have been working hard in the studio teaming up with producer Ant Whiting, who has worked with the likes of MIA, John Newman and Lana De Ray, in what proved to be an exciting mix of creative ideas.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. It's Not Comfortable To Grow
    2. Girl Boy Girl
    3. Disposable Love
    4. It's Pretty Bad
    5. Environmental
    6. Life's A Colourful Thing When You Look At It Right
    7. Disco Wings
    8. Marbles
    9. Something Better
    10. Elastic Time

    Plastic Mermaids

    Suddenly Everyone Explodes

      Plastic Mermaids are a five-piece band from the Isle of Wight who, after building their own analogue studio, have self-produced one of the most genuinely original and sonically adventurous debut albums you’ll hear all year: ‘Suddenly Everyone Explodes’. They are brothers Jamie and Douglas Richards, who collaborate on vocals, synths and samples, along with guitarist Chris Newnham, bassist Tom Farren and drummer Chris Jones.

      Born out of the ashes of previous bands Magic Octagon and Neon Fetus, Plastic Mermaids are not a band who have ever wanted for ambition. They started out as a three-piece - Jamie, Doug and Chris Newnham - although they realised after early shows that they needed more hands on deck. “I was there at thir first gig, not playing but just watching,” remembers Tom. “It was utter carnage. I really appreciated the audacity of them even attempting what they were doing. They had an audaciousness, and the willingness to try things and have them not pay off.”

      “We just kept coming up with ideas and tried to make them happen,” recalls Douglas. “That’s all we did for ages. We didn’t really think about where it would all lead.”

      In terms of musical influences, fans of The Flaming Lips, Arcade Fire, Sparklehorse and Tame Impala will all find something to love in Plastic Mermaids’ richly-textured sound. The Flaming Lips’ influence is also evident in their ecstactic live show.



      TRACK LISTING

      Vinyl:

      Side A
      1. Glow
      2. 1996
      3. Floating In A Vacuum
      4. Milk
      5. Yoyo
      Side B
      1. I Still Like Kelis
      2. 10,000 Violins Playing Inside An Otherwise Empty Head
      3. Throwing Stones At The Moon
      4. Aquarium Acid Trip
      5. Taxonomy
      6. Luliuli

      CD:

      1. Glow
      2. 1996
      3. Floating In A Vacuum
      4. 10,000 Violins Playing Inside An Otherwise Empty Head
      5. Milk
      6. Yoyo
      7. I Still Like Kelis
      8. Unhappy Tamagotchi
      9. Throwing Stones At The Moon
      10. Aquarium Acid Trip
      11. Ooh
      12. Taxonomy
      13. Luliuli


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