Plastic is Blake, Macklin, and Alissa, a synth-punk outfit operating out of the great city of Chicago, Illinois.Following a couple of cassette demos, the second of which you can stream below, the band are hitting the road to hook up with fellow malcontents, play loud and obnoxious shows, and have fun.The three-piece also have a song on a flexi that will be included on the next issue of the excellent No Friends zine and a release later this year on Not Normal tapes.Listen to the demo below and read a short interview with Macklin.Noisey: When people say damaged synth punk are they referring to the synth or the actual musicians as being damaged?
Macklin: You’d have to ask those people. Do we seem damaged? These songs were written in a post-poppers binge and a haze of vape smoke. Our families pay our rent so we can live this lifestyle. It’s hard not to be nihilistic with all this money.You have a track called "Brain Damage", as did influential but polarizing acts Pink Floyd and Eminem. If you had to pick one who would it be?
Pink Floyd is such bullshit and Eminem was tight when we were 12-years-old. This is a polarizing question only because it is the deciding factor in realizing what kind of knuckle dragging mouth breather you are. Fried enough to be Pink Floyd. Ignorant enough for Eminem.You have a track on the upcoming No Friends zine flexi. The first issue with the Lumpy/Ausmuteants flexi was great. I hear some similarities between Ausmuteants and Plastic.
I’m not sure if any of us listen to them but they’re not bad. We believe we sound more like anything on Psychopathic Records than lazy punk band comparisons. We’d much rather be making cough syrup circus music than this but today’s climate seems to insist that the best way to diversify your bonds is to play ‘freak/punk’ music. It must be working. We are working out a deal with Levis right now.You are also in 86 Gemini. How would you describe the difference in the two bands?
86 Gemini has hope for humanity. Plastic has hope they will start selling Benadryl at Costco by the pound. Plastic is us. 86 are a bunch of aesthetic bro new age meditation retreat liberals.
Jan 14 – Kansas City at Blind Tiger
Jan 15 – Oklahoma City at Mackenzie & Co.
Jan 16 – Denton at Gatsby’s
Jan 17 – Dallas-Fort Worth at 1912 Club
Jan 18 – Austin at Monkeywrench
Jan 19 – Houston
Jan 20 – New Orleans
Jan 21 – Hattiesburg at Spice World
Jan 22 – Birmingham at Southside Lounge
Jan 23 – St Louis at the LiveryPlastic’s 2.0 demo is available through Animated Music.
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Macklin: You’d have to ask those people. Do we seem damaged? These songs were written in a post-poppers binge and a haze of vape smoke. Our families pay our rent so we can live this lifestyle. It’s hard not to be nihilistic with all this money.You have a track called "Brain Damage", as did influential but polarizing acts Pink Floyd and Eminem. If you had to pick one who would it be?
Pink Floyd is such bullshit and Eminem was tight when we were 12-years-old. This is a polarizing question only because it is the deciding factor in realizing what kind of knuckle dragging mouth breather you are. Fried enough to be Pink Floyd. Ignorant enough for Eminem.You have a track on the upcoming No Friends zine flexi. The first issue with the Lumpy/Ausmuteants flexi was great. I hear some similarities between Ausmuteants and Plastic.
I’m not sure if any of us listen to them but they’re not bad. We believe we sound more like anything on Psychopathic Records than lazy punk band comparisons. We’d much rather be making cough syrup circus music than this but today’s climate seems to insist that the best way to diversify your bonds is to play ‘freak/punk’ music. It must be working. We are working out a deal with Levis right now.You are also in 86 Gemini. How would you describe the difference in the two bands?
86 Gemini has hope for humanity. Plastic has hope they will start selling Benadryl at Costco by the pound. Plastic is us. 86 are a bunch of aesthetic bro new age meditation retreat liberals.
Catch Plastic at these shows:
Jan 14 – Kansas City at Blind Tiger
Jan 15 – Oklahoma City at Mackenzie & Co.
Jan 16 – Denton at Gatsby’s
Jan 17 – Dallas-Fort Worth at 1912 Club
Jan 18 – Austin at Monkeywrench
Jan 19 – Houston
Jan 20 – New Orleans
Jan 21 – Hattiesburg at Spice World
Jan 22 – Birmingham at Southside Lounge
Jan 23 – St Louis at the LiveryPlastic’s 2.0 demo is available through Animated Music.