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New York City, New York, United States | INDIE

New York City, New York, United States | INDIE
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"Gun Control: Brittany Snow is in the new Plushgun video...and you can only watch it here. "

Brittany Snow is in the new Plushgun video...and you can only watch it here.

Here’s what you need to know about Plushgun’s first video:

1) It’s to “Just Impolite”, the first single from the Brooklyn-based electremo (yes, that’s electro-meets-emo) band. You’ll have to wait until February to check out the rest of the songs from their debut album, Pins and Panzers.

2) It was directed by Tyler Shields, the 26-year-old who gets to take photos of the cast of Twilight and fight with stars like The Office’s Rainn Wilson.

3) It stars Brittany Snow (Hairspray), Juno Temple (The Other Boleyn Girl) and Shiloh Fernandez (Cadillac Records).

4) It features a twisted love triangle between a couple traipsing around Paris and a dark-haired woman who likes to smash car windows.

5) You can’t watch it anywhere else but here.

NYLON has the exclusive on Plushgun’s first video and, well, you really can’t miss it. Unless you’re too busy dancing to the song. That we’d excuse.
REBECCA WILLA DAVIS - NYLON Magazine


"Pins & Panzers Review"

Trying to get a Plushgun song out of your head would take a level of focus and concentration most people just don't have; or a jackhammer. With an array of shimmering keyboard melodies, hook-driven pop sensibility and a voice so pristine and emotional you'll laugh and cry at his command, founder Daniel Ingala excels at crafting tunes that dance out of the speakers and float straight into the soul on this surprisingly intimate collection of lush electro-pop.

Beneath the instantly accessible surface of "How We Roll" and "Just Impolite" lays a level of depth and intelligently genuine songwriting that proves Plushgun is more than just your average bunch of tunesmiths. An ethereal air of '80s New Wave blows over "Dancing In A Minefield" and "A Crush To Pass The Time," then carries over to the introverted "The Dark In You." Midway through the disc, the bright and cheery atmosphere is already drilled into your skull, but Ingala takes it a step further by busting out his banjo for the mushy sing-along "Let Me Kiss You (And I'll Fade Away)." Adding a much-needed sense of emotive realism to the mix, Pins & Panzers ends with its two biggest and most bittersweet compositions. The layered and pulsating "Without A Light" shows an edgier side to the band before seamlessly transitioning into "An Aria," which closes out the album on somber, yet triumphant note. Through everything, the disc's exuberant aesthetic is never lost.

Should Pins & Panzers serve to usher in a new era of indie-pop, then I'd say the genre is in great shape. Plushgun is the perfect band to show the tweener set that music can be catchy as all get out, without being completely watered-down and mindless. For everyone else, they're a new guilty pleasure. - Artistdirect.com - Ryan Ogle


Discography

Album - "Pins & Panzers" Feb 2009 - Tommy Boy Entertainment
EP - "Dancing In A Minefield" Nov 2008 - Tommy Boy Entertainment
EP - "Plushgun" Aug 2008 - Tommy Boy Entertainment

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Plushgun released a self-titled EP in August 2008, followed by a November EP of remixes by Andrew WK, Jesse Novak (M.I.A., Santogold) and Justin Strauss (Depeche Mode, Marc Almond, Carl Cox). A Don Diablo remix was released in early 2009. Plushgun is thrilled to see the worldwide release of Pins & Panzers in 2009!

The band shot a music video for “Just Impolite” with director Tyler Shields, featuring Juno Temple (“The Other Boleyn Girl,” “Atonement,” “Notes on a Scandal,” and upcoming “Mr. Nobody” and “The Year One”), Brittany Snow (“Hairspray,” “Prom Night,” and upcoming Gossip Girl spinoff “Valley Girl””) and Shiloh Fernandez ( “Cadillac Records” and “The United States of Tara”). Plushgun also created a video for “Let Me Kiss You Now (And I’ll Fade Away)”, $99 for the shoot, $600 for the beer.

Having played CMJ and SXSW in 2008, Plushgun has been busy touring America, Canada and Spain in 2009, and working on their 2010 album release.