Plastic Nebraska
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Stories of Happiness(IT-035)The first full-length release from Plastic since 1997's His Head is a House. PN once again team up with Matt Saccuccimorano to produce their strongest offering to date. More songs about vacuuming, parking ramps and engines. Lugubrious but celebratory, ominous and hypnotic. One of I-Town's darkest horses, have a listen on funkyside.com   ORDER BY MAIL |
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The Proudest Animal(IT-010)I-Town Records is so proud to present the latest release from Ithaca's own Plastic Nebraska. Beautiful and chilling. Pristine, yet organic- this 5 song EP is at the top of the play list at the I-Town Record Shop. It's easy to listen 2 or 3 times in a row without stopping. Potent imagery and subtle use of sampled sound bytes mix with the roots sounds of accordion, drum, bass, and raw guitar to create a truly seamless whole. Masterfully mixed by Matt Saccuccimorano. Check out their official website and see them live when they come to your town... ORDER BY MAIL |
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Plastic Nebraska (Self-Titled)Plastic Nebraska's enigmatic, entrancing sound weaves together disparate sounds: Scissoring accordions, blues tinged guitar, arty arrangements, low-key vocals, cryptic lyrics. It's not jam music, it's not exactly rock and roll, it's not folk. The best cuts have an itchy pulse, etching out a minimalist dance groove, with low-key harmonies over the top. The accordion adds a rustic, rural flavor but there's something vaguely ominous and sinister at work here. This could be a soundtrack for off-kilter folks who populate the towns in 'X-Files' or 'Twin Peaks'. ORDER BY MAIL |
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Reviews:
"After a decade languishing in obscurity, registering barely a boing or a blip on the alt-country sonar, it seems that these six Upstate New Yorkers have more pent-up passion for the open road than the bulk of their nature-loving neighbourhood brethren. Revelling in the combatant entanglement of urban and agrarian sounds, 'Stories of Happiness' (the band's first release since 2000's 'The Proudest Animal' EP) captures the sextet embracing an epic eclecticism that catapults them far beyond the realms of comfortable rurality. An artistic remit that certainly reaps rewards in the stylistic shape-shifting stakes, if nothing else. Thus the vicious 'Vacuumed' mixes 'Glum'-era Giant Sand gristle with Dick Dale surf twang and Fugazi drum clatter, highlighting the burning intent to cross musical borders from the start. The glorious mash of strings and shimmering guitars that is 'Helicopter' follows a little later on, owing a dual-debt to Calexico and Eleventh Dream Day, whilst further on in the proceedings the distended funk of 'Electricity Wire' betrays a fondness for Talking Heads' most frenzied early albums. The record's highest musical watermark is however reached at the monolithic mid-point - 'Diamond Mines' - a dramatic orchestral thunderstorm that recalls Ennio Morricone at his most menacing and macabre. But for all the group's genre-bending ingenuity, the best moments on 'Stories of Happiness' occur within the more stripped-down and sedate musical settings, as firmly attested by the wintery waltz of 'Flowers' (featuring Saint Low's Mary Lorson on guest vocals) and through the spooky organ/accordion-led strains of 'Betty Ford'. ...this wild (and wide-screen) log-cabin breakout should, by rights, pull Plastic Nebraska away from long-suffering indifference and into the welcoming arms of adventure-hungry Americana addicts."
-Adrian Pannett ,Comes with a Smile, London, England
"I lost my oldest boy at PN's last 'gig' - ran off with one of those front row girls - she was poppin' pills and movin' around like she was on the t.v. - damn it, no boy's that strong, no normal boy anyways. you go ahead and keep strummin' your six-stringed devil, Hansen, I'm watchin' you."
-Johnny Belmar, Binghamton, NY