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"These guys rock, in the vanguard of what seems to be a paisley Viking invasion, still wielding axes but these days they are plugged in and making glorious noises"
Rob Ellen, The Medicine Show: www.themedicineshow.eu
The Plastic Pals from Stockholm, Sweden released their debut album GOOD KARMA CAFÉ in 2008. An americana-tinged affair, while still true to the twin guitar-paisley-garage-powerpop-New York rock-ideals as presented on the EP THE BAND THATS FUN TO BE WITH (2006). A collection of magic melodies with a dark edge.
The sound of The Plastic Pals continues to attract an increasing number of fans worldwide. A rootsy classic guitar-laden rock sound that takes you on a time capsule from the 50s to the present. The band has been compared to bands and artists like Echo&The Bunnymen, Television, The Dream Syndicate, The Velvet Underground, Green on Red, The Godfathers, Blue Oyster Cult, Green on Red, Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Costello. We are out on a mission from God to spread the gospel about the wonderful music that we feel is almost threatened with extinction these days: jangly guitar pop that is too rootsy to be called garage, too poppish be called rootsy, too garage rocking to be called americana or alt-country. The list goes on.
The album GOOD KARMA CAFÉ – with guest appearances by the legendary Green on Reds keyboard maestro Chris Cacavas – has received really good reviews, in Sweden as well as in the UK, The Netherlands, Belgium and Italy. Tunes from the album have received airplay and/or is receiving airplay in the USA (WFMU and WFNX), the UK (BBC6 and the House of Mercy show at Total Radio), Greece, Spain, Sweden, Germany, Holland, Belgium and France – with A-rotaion for months on a radio station in Lyon.
In November 2008 The Plastic Pals were invited to London by Gurbir “Another Cowboy” Dhillon (who released albums with The Dream Syndicate and Band of Outsiders in the 1980:s) and Nick West, editor of magazine/fanzine Bucketfull of Brains for a celebration of The Paisley Underground at the Windmill, Brixton. Besides playing a regular Plastic Pals-set the band backed ex-Long Ryder Sid Griffin on a set of tunes by The Long Ryders, and finished off the night with a set of songs by The Only Ones, The Dream Syndicate, Green on Red, The Velvet Undergound and Danny&Dusty. The same weekend The Plastic Pals played two more London dates at The Hope & Anchor and 12 Bar Club.
In June 2009 they were support band for The New Christs at the Feelgood club in Halden, Norway.
The Plastic Pals are soon to be featured on a compilation of songs by The Only Ones with a version of No peace for the wicked. Currently The Plastic Pals are working on new material for a second album and are on the lookout for more exciting gigs.
http://www.theplasticpals.se
http://www.polythenerecords.se
THE PLASTIC PALS
GOOD KARMA CAFÉ (2008)
POLYTHENE 003 / POLYTHENE RECORDS
PRESS QUOTES:
"/./If you heard one of these cuts on the radio then whichever one it was, you’d want to know who it was. Those guitars are utterly infectious as they jangle and pummel, sometimes simultaneously. If what goes around does indeed come around then their music will take them far /./"
- Lindsay Hutton, The Next Big Thing (UK)
Grade 9/10
“/./bursting with vitality and crunching Mod-pop energy without feeling the need to wear a Target T-shirt /./ a fine, wholly consistent two guitars, bass and drums record which is cut from durable rock'n'roll cloth without ever sounding horribly derivative.”
- Tim Peacock, Whisperin & Hollerin (UK)
Grade 8/10
“Opener Here Comes the Sun is a perfect example of their ability to produce vibrant and visceral songs which tap straight into rock's collective unconscious.”
- Kai Roberts, Americana UK (UK)
Grade 8/10
“/./ down to earth 60:s pop and light psychedelia with fine melodies and great guitar figures and good vocals which expresses the lyrics clearly. This Stockholm band would appeal to those who like Lloyd Cole, Television, The Doors, Dream Syndicate and even Robyn Hitchcock.”
- Robert Ryttman, Zero Music Magazine (Sweden)
Grade 3,5/5
“Had Håkan Soold been an Englishman or an American he would have belonged to a select group of internationally acclaimed but modestly selling cult heroes. With his highly qualitative and lightly psychedelic rock, his neat guitar lines almost on par with Tom Verlaine and his competent voice which is close to Ian McNabb (see that as a recommendation), he ought to be counted in among such artists, together with Richard Lloyd, Chris Spedding and Matthew Sweet.”
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THE PLASTIC PALS
THE BAND THATS FUN TO BE WITH (2006)
POLYTHENE 002 / POLYTHENE RECORDS
