Now this is more like it. PLASTIC GIRL IN CLOSET’s last single, “Pretty Little Bag,” certainly satiated anyone who needed a standard helping of shoegaze in their diet. Yet it was also a little too zoned out, far too content to stare at its Converse sneakers and engage in any conversation beyond “what is reality…
In which PLASTIC GIRL IN CLOSET score the iconic scene from American Beauty where some people watch a plastic bag blowing in around before calling it “life affirming” or something something. I mean, this COULD score such a mundane happening – the genres called shoegaze afterall, named after the literal fact people would just stare…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJWoJ0yVwtc”] Tweegaze? Google tells me I’m not remotely the first person to come up with that Franken-genre…looks like The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart ushered it in…but originality be damned because that’s easily the best way to describe PLASTIC GIRL IN CLOSET’s “Tiny Tambourines.” The group wash the whole thing over with subtle feedback…
What is it about shoegaze music and Japan? I stumble across more bands citing My Bloody Valentine as an influence than anything else. I guess this country just loves them some dream pop. The latest entrant into this field is PLASTIC GIRL IN CLOSET, a duo making feedback-heavy rock. They released a new album, Toy,…