The latest release from Isle of Wight band, Plastic Mermaids, has already picked up a five star review.
The second full-length album, It’s Not Comfortable to Grow, published by Sunday Best Music and Domino Publishing Company Ltd, is described by the Independent as a “magnificent follow-up” to the debut 2019 album, Suddenly Everyone Explodes.
“Compositional brilliance”
As News OnTheWight noted when the band first emerged way back around 2012/13 Plastic Mermaid’s ethereal music embodies a cinematic, filmic quality – something that’s also observed by the Independent’s reviewer, Roisin O’Connor.
She says the album is “compositional brilliance and, contradicting the title, proof this band are evolving in spectacular fashion”.
Profound and emotional exploration of the many facets of heartbreak
The blurb for the album reads:
The remarkable album is a profound and emotional exploration of the many facets of heartbreak, seen through the eyes of frontman and lyricist Douglas Richards.
The sun-bleached, sauntering ‘Disposable Love’ is the first official single to be revealed from the album and one of the moments that finds Douglas exploring moments of passing relief, as he explains “it’s about wanting to get back to a younger place, a freer place; a feeling of not having much worth, but being nostalgic for that.”
Tracks were written from the start of the first lockdown in March 2020 and recorded in the band’s self-built studio at Douglas and Jamie’s father’s house in Gurnard (Doug, Chris and Jamie live nearby in Cowes, bassist Tom is in Newport and drummer Chris in freshwater).
In-store appearance
Plastic Mermaids will be making an in-store appearance on Saturday 1st October at Ventnor Exchange between 2-3pm.
Head to Ventnor to see them in the flesh and they might even sign your album.
Find out more
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