indie five-piece Plastic Mermaids have shared a poignant new acoustic take on ‘Milk’.
The Isle of Wight band are toasting the first anniversary of their debut album, and are currently prepping a new seven inch single. Opting to re-work two favourite cuts from the LP, Plastic Mermaids utilised a Tascam 388 for these sparse home-made sketches.
Out shortly, the single will be available digitally as well as on seven inch picture disc vinyl.
We’re able to share a beautifully stripped back version of ‘Milk’, while the visuals are drapped in light.
“Milk” (Acoustic) · Plastic Mermaids on Sunday Best Recordings Released on: 2020-03-31
Though they already have two EP’s under their belts, Plastic Mermaids is the delirious but delightful new band you never thought you needed. Perforating a gigantic chamber pop sound with woozy hues of space rock and ornate orchestral flairs, Plastic Mermaids brandishes a richly-textured blueprint that few can replicate, and ‘Taxonomy’—the latest cut from their debut album out now via Sunday Best Recordings—offers an apt glimpse into their wacky world of sound and visuals.
In celebration of today’s release of the Suddenly Everyone Explodes, the Isle of Wight-based five-piece has also unveiled a bizarre new music video for their fourth and final single.
As they’ve so peculiarly accomplished through their music, the band also has a knack for weird world-building through their videos. ‘Taxonomy’ is yet another dizzying visual effort that pairs perfectly with their brand of psych-pop, but this time they follow the route of clay animation in the same vein as Bruce Bickford who created stop-motion animations for the great Frank Zappa. While the result is no Bickford, Plastic Mermaids self-produced endeavor comes pretty damn close with the help of about 20 of their fans.
On the track, the band reflected on the grueling production of the new video: “Doug did some maths and realized that if we shot one frame every minute it was going to take us 54 hours of constant animation. Not wanting to die of exhaustion we decided to put a message out on our socials to see if we could get any extra helpers and we had about 20 Plastic Mermaids fans (of all ages) come and help us with the model making and animating. It was still a pretty intense experience trying to average one frame every 30 seconds and if we hadn’t had anyone help us we’d probably still be animating now!”
The claymation visual is disorienting and at times unnerving as disfigured clay beings hallucinate after feasting upon some DMT-infused ice cream served and sold by a creepy little mustache man. But the strange concept doesn’t end there. After tripping out, those who ate the ice cream experience explosive side effects—literally.
Our debut album ‘Suddenly Everyone Explodes’ is out now
The artwork and extravagant title of Plastic Mermaids forthcoming new EP might well have you thinking that ‘Everything Is Yellow And Yellow Is My Least Favourite Colour’ will find Isle Of Wight’s finest in suitably decadent fashion, pushing the off-kilter psych flourishes that they’ve toyed with across their ever-expansive back-catalogue to new found heights.
Somewhat surprisingly – and rather satisfyingly – new track ‘Paris Milkshake‘ goes against such premonitions to offer what might well be the band’s most subtle moment to-date; a stirring, falsetto-led ballad full of swirling instrumentation and warped imagery. The track does gradually build itself up to dizzying heights, but it’s that initial bluster of striking, stirring strings and odd-pop tributaries that land the heaviest blow, presenting a carnival ride of sentiments that consumes the listener like some flashing storm of shifting colour that doesn’t just radiate warmth and energy but sucks you fully in to their most fascinating, compelling inner-circle.
The sound of a very special band growing more special by the day. The full EP is released later this summer via Cross Keys Records.
Plastic Mermaids hail from the Isle of Wight, but largely reside in their own world.
The band make exuberant indie pop with an off kilter feel, their home-grown experiments recall The Beta Band’s early lysergic cuts, or even Clinic’s more melodic side. Plastic Mermaids are sharing “Beyond The Cosmos After Death”, the second taste of their upcoming EP, on Cross Keys Records.
The new single is a sprawling six-and-a-chunk-minute ode from the Isle Of Wight outfit.
Although starting sparsely, the band’s new single quickly begins bursting with spaced-out synths and layers of fragile melody as it rattles upwards into a string-led celestial behemoth. “Beyond The Cosmos...” is powerful, cinematic post-rock with dusky pop earworms and straightforward emotion – as it grows from seed to sapling to a mighty, ground-shaking heart stopper, Plastic Mermaids demonstrate their abilities across a broad spectrum of styles.
The Everything Is Yellow And Yellow Is My Least Favourite Colour EP is released via Cross Keys. It’s the final portion of an EP trilogy. Working on a trilogy of EPs, the series is set to close with this release
New cut ‘Alaska’ leads the way, and it’s a perfectly formed piece of jagged alt pop.
The softly sweet melodies interlace with a complex rhythmic chassis, a continually evolving piece of glimmery, oddly psychedelic pop music.
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