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Suddenly Plastic

Turgi, Aargau, Switzerland | SELF

Turgi, Aargau, Switzerland | SELF
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"ALBUM REVIEW: Suddenly Plastic – you just don’t know (Rock Archive)"

Album Review – English Translation:
From a funky-soul-like beginning it’s evolving quickly to a fusion of rock, psychedelic and trip hop. Downbeat with a tinge of sweet melancholy in a spherical, ethereal world of electro sounds. Aerial structures full of colors and sounds with a lot of melody, harmony, rhythm, and just the right flow… Soft, dreamy tunes combine with fast, intense, and those again with unusual, awkward tunes. Thrilling technical effects that create separate acoustics, graceful sound sequences and a constant change in time and drive catch the listener’s undivided attention. This musically composed drug trip is intense and full of suspense, peppered with electronica bites, accompanied with lush and sometimes capricious guitar riffs, synthesizers, strings, drums, and keys. Singer Linda’s striking voice has a calming and almost mesmerizing effect, and all of sudden with a surge of power and temper jolts the cradled audience awake. Her alternately whispering, smooth, violent, and bitter vocals absorb the listener and unfold for him/her a new, equivocal world where passion and frustration meet. The music of this Argovian Band from Switzerland is pop-like, ethereal, and full of soul. The impression of gloom is running like a red thread trough this progressive-indie-rock disc by Suddenly Plastic. Sound tinkerings, echo effects, as well as their experimental approach to song structures just intensify the feeling of esotericism and illusion; a misty-eyed, surreal dream world, in which to move feels like dancing on a tightrope: dizzying, dangerous, and nevertheless liberating…

Source:
http://www.trespass.ch/Web/de/Bands_A-Z/S/Suddenly_Plastic/Suddenly_Plastic_you_just_dont_know_Rock_Archive2.htm


Original Album Review in German:
Was soulig-funkig anfängt, entwickelt sich schnell zu einer Mischung aus Rock, Psychedelic und Trip Hop. Downbeat mit einem Touch süsser Melancholie in sphärischen, ätherischen Elektro-Klangwelten. Luftige Gebilde voller Farben und Klängen mit viel Melodie, Harmonie, Rhythmus und eben dem richtigen Flow... Verträumte, ruhige Töne fusionieren mit starken, schnellen und die wiederum mit ungewohnten, schrägen Klängen. Spannende technische Effekte erzeugen aparte Akustiken und anmutige Klangfolgen und die ständigen Tempo- und Druckwechsel sorgen für ungeteilte Aufmerksamkeit. Dieser vertonte Drogentrip ist Spannungsgeladen und intensiv, gespickt mit Elektrohappen, geleitet von satten und manchmal spielerischen Gitarrenriffs, Synthesizers, Saiten, Kübel und Tasten. Die frappante Stimme der Sängerin Linda wirkt einerseits beruhigend und beinahe hypnotisch, nur um gleich darauf das eingelullte Publikum in einer Welle aus Kraft und Temperament von den Stühlen zu reissen. Mit mal säuselndem, sanftem, mal hitzigem, mal bitterem Gesang fesselt sie den Zuhörer und eröffnet ihm eine neue, dubiose Welt in der Leidenschaft und Frustration sich die Hand geben. Die Lieder der Aargauer Band sind poppig, schwerelos und seelenvoll. Der Eindruck der Schwermut zieht sich wie ein roter Faden durch die Progressive- Indie- Rock-Rondelle von Suddenly Plastic. Klangtüfteleien, Echoeffekte sowie der experimentelle Umgang mit Songstrukturen verstärken nur noch das Gefühl von Esoterik und Illusion und kreieren eine verklärte, surrealistische Traumwelt in der sich zu bewegen einem Tanz auf dem Drahtseil gleichkommt; schwindelerregend, gefährlich und nichtsdestoweniger befreiend...

Source:
http://www.trespass.ch/Web/de/Bands_A-Z/S/Suddenly_Plastic/Suddenly_Plastic_you_just_dont_know_Rock_Archive2.htm - http://Tresspass.ch


Discography

EP Dive to Fly (2004)
4 tracks, [AAD]
Produced by Suddenly Plastic
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Patrick Newman at NEENWO Recording, Nussbaumen (AG), Switzerland
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Album You Just Don't Know (Released on April 1, 2009)
11 tracks, [AAD]
Produced by Suddenly Plastic
Recorded and mixed by Patrick Newman at Neenwo Recording Studio, Nussbaumen (AG), Switzerland
Mastered by Walter Schmid at Oakland Recording, Winterthur (ZH), Switzerland
Manufactured by European Distribution Company, Langenhagen (NI), Germany

Distribution: www.suddenlyplastic.ch, www.CeDe.ch, www.CDbaby.com

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Bio

Elias Kohli (bass/guitars) und Andreas Schmied (guitars/bass) started doing their experimental music under the name of Suddenly Plastic in 1997. Those two musicians are not only very talented on their instruments but also very creative in making electronic sounds, that partly support the music of Suddenly Plastic. Ronny Kohler (synths, organ, piano) came into the band in 1998 and supported the music as a drummer first, until he went back to his origins, where he was found to be excellent. Manuel Sulzer, a drummer full of energy and variation took Ronny's place. After numerous changes in the vocal lineup (former vocalists are among others Simone Stump and Linah Rocio) charismatic singer/songwriter Linda Kratky and Suddenly Plastic bumped into each other by chance in the year 2002. Both had to play at the same venue on the same evening: Linda couldn't find a band and Suddenly Plastic couldn't find a singer.
Here you go.

Typical of Suddenly Plastic sound:
- from gentle/easy to brutal/noisy
- a decent tinge of pop with a melancholy flavor
- catchy and unforgettable vocal lines
- guitar effect bubbles and wildly oscillating synths
- sounds full of atmosphere accompanied with heavy guitar riffs
- from capricious to direct without mercy

More about this band (in German too):
http://www.suddenlyplastic.ch
http://www.myspace.com/suddenlyplastic