There are so many tasty waves crashing along the shores of Vanyaland, you’d think it was the middle of summer. Yesterday we premiered the debut single from Boston experimental pop sextet Narrow Waves, and today we’re back with the much-antipcipated debut EP from Boston psych-pop wunderkid Plastic Waves.
The EP follows the release of two fantastic guitar-warped singles, “You Never Listen” and “Melancholy Sleep,” both that suggest styles ranging from British psychedelia to Brooklyn indie rock to ’90s Britpop, and continues the crystalizing band vision of chief member and songwriter Andre Bellido.
“Plastic Waves is essentially my solo project of psychedelic music that started out from my desire to start writing alone after a few bands I tried to form earlier on in college didn’t really work out,” Bellido told us a while back when we premiered “You Never Listen”. “I started to get a sense of direction for what kind of sound and vibe I was going for, and I realized that I didn’t technically need a band to record the music I was trying to create. Apart from that, I started to really enjoy doing everything on my own since I had a pretty clear vision of what I wanted to do.”
The rest of the EP follows along Plastic Waves’ hazy brand of 7 a.m. rock and roll. “Friendly” might be the best song Oasis never wrote, while pushing me down would make Anton Newcombe of the Brian Jonestown Massacre blush. But the true standout remains “You Never Listen”, a rocket-ride of swirling guitar-rock goodness that hits a brilliant bit of cruising altitude.
“[It’s] probably the most psych-pop kind of sound that’s on my upcoming EP,” Bellido said of the song. “It came about one night while testing out a new pedal I had just bought, and I came up with most of the guitar parts that night. I wasn’t sure I was going to actually make a full song out of it, but one of my friends was listening to what I was doing and he liked it, so I decided to see what I could do with it.”
Clear your calendar for the next 48 hors and listen to the Plastic Waves EP in full via the Bandcamp. And come back down to Earth on March 7, when Plastic Waves, with a full live band, play a Lysten Boston event at the Middle East with Calico Blue and Petting Zoo.
