The Shadow Year, by Plasteroid

The Shadow Year

by Plasteroid

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1.	Walker 03:13	buy track
2.	Carrington 05:01	buy track
3.	Blinking 05:51	buy track
4.	Blind Future 04:43	buy track
5.	New Man 03:35	buy track
6.	This Insane 02:42	buy track
7.	Medium Render 04:26	buy track
8.	Abyssinia 04:00	buy track

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Lost in a wasteland of errant synth patches, shock-inducing guitars, and run-on streams of alien poetry, Plasteroid are the future that passed you by. Their debut album, The Shadow Year, offers eight slabs of melodic post-punk (music/production by Darryl Robbins; lyrics/vocals by Josh England). The first of these, "Walker," is a prologue to the time/space-bending song cycle that follows: "Carrington," riddled with references to geomagnetic storms and reality TV utopias; "Blinking Unison"—a chant-driven meditation on conformity and contrarian viewpoints. The album's centerpiece, "Blind Future," unravels its increasingly mysterious narrative over levitating pop hooks. Side two unfolds as a reversal—a resolution; a return. The "New Man" of track five discovers ritual ecstasy in the art of the breakdown; on "This Insane," he drifts into outer space—where he sees the chaos on his home planet as the predetermined strategy of intergalactic forces. The album closes with two brain-melting slices of musical/lyrical free-association: looking beyond the shadows of earth-bound time, and seeing straight into the light of our collective unconscious. Flickering celebrities… Happy endings… Endless meetings… This is The Shadow Year. You have nothing to fear.

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released September 25, 2020

J England - Vocals/Words
D Robbins - The other stuff

Produced by D Robbins
Mastered by Carl Saff. Hire him. saffmastering.com

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Plasteroid Dayton, Ohio

D Robbins
J England

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