ARTiST: Plasticsoul
ALBUM: Peacock Swagger
BiTRATE: 195kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL: CD Baby
GENRE: Rock
SiZE: 75.80 megs
PLAYTiME: 0h 52min 28sec total
RiP DATE: 2010-06-25
STORE DATE: 2009-12-08
Track List:
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01. You Sentimental Fucks/Life on 5:34
Other Planets
02. Cock Rock 101 2:39
03. Champion Tragic Boy 4:44
04. Fishwife 3:55
05. Cancer 3:19
06. What Do You Know About Rock & 2:51
Roll?
07. Shame 4:30
08. New Town, Different Day 4:21
09. San Francisco 3:54
10. You're Not Free 2:37
11. My Three Friends 4:32
12. Rainy Season 9:32
Release Notes:
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Name your band after a phrase rooted in Beatles lore, and youÆd goddamn well
better come with some top-shelf poppy goodness ù and thatÆs what Plasticsoul
does on the L.A.-based collectiveÆs second release, the aptly named Peacock
Swagger. Like a musical Jackson Pollock painting made up of splashes of the
Beatles, Michael Penn, Jellyfish, Elliott Smith, Badfinger, and Todd Rundgren,
Swagger struts from psychedelia-tinged torment (ôCancerö) to countrified
balladry (ôYouÆre Not Freeö) to hard-charging power pop (ôCock Rock 101?) to
baroque-flavored, Jon Brion-style chamber music (ôChampion Tragic Boyö) without
breaking its stride. ItÆs the kind of album that would have been made and
promoted with an enormous budget if the record industry had a brain in its head
ù but as Loudon Wainwright III once quipped, ôthe world is a terrible place,ö
and Plasticsoul doesnÆt have a label, or even an official e-mail address not
ending in ôhotmail.com.ö ItÆs a sorry state of affairs, to be certain, but
unlike the members of Plasticsoul, you arenÆt cursed with a compulsive need to
write and record brilliant pop music in virtual obscurity; all your lazy ass has
to do is buy the stuff and listen to it, and believe me, listening to it is
perilously easy. If you love pop music and youÆve never heard of Plasticsoul,
one listen to Peacock Swagger should be enough to make you doubt the existence
of God, because only in a cold and random universe could these guys be shucking
their wares on a website that looks like it was put together with Dreamweaver
and a migraine instead of trying to see the back of Wembley Arena through the
blizzard of womenÆs underwear being hurled at the stage where theyÆre playing
for 90,000 screaming fans. Buying Peacock Swagger wonÆt make the world fair, but
it will make your speakers happy. Go get some.