I’ve been reviewing music online for almost nine years now and during this time I think I’ve covered a lot of genres. Amongst those, of course, are the artists who defy categorisation. Plastic Fuzz definitely come into this, well, category. I guess very, very skewed alternative pop would just about cover it. ‘5′ is, appropriately, the fifth in the collection of their EP series and covers five tracks in ten minutes.
During this time I heard wired post-punk for ‘Chicken Pink’, happy electronic psychedelia for ‘10 Honest 10′. ‘Waterbabies’ represents fuzzy, guitar pop whereas the predominantly acoustic ‘The City And I’ invents a new form of drunken folk music. On each track the vocals are distant and slightly robotic. I have to say I’m not sure if I liked these songs or not; the sheer amount of styles covered in ten minutes consists of very short songs and little in the way of cohesion yet it was certainly listenable and made me think of crazed musical inventors throwing in liquids labelled “punk”, “pop”, “electronica” and “new wave” in to a mixing pot and then watching the results explode.
Even more confusingly I was sent a sampler for the 100-song album ‘DOTS’ in which they seem to have included a snippet for each song in a very small amount of time. I’m sure the album itself is a lot less mind-bending but it was at this time that I started to develop a headache.
Web Sites:
Plastic Fuzz Official Site
Plastic Fuzz MySpace
Further Listening:
Blackloud
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