Another review hauled from my archives. This is from 2008
Plastic Toys
'For Tonight Only'
(Hill Valley Records)
Emerging
from the ashes of Karmic Jera come Plastic Toys. A scuzzbag manifestation that
has ferociously violated a plethora of genres so proficiently the bastard
offspring is emphatically sexy.
Any record
that opens with the line ‘last night I fucked your girlfriend’ had better
have the innovational competence to endorse such unambiguous proclamations.
This has been achieved rather substantially right here on this debut album by
Southampton four-piece Plastic Toys. Think of nearly every hard rock, sleazy,
disco havoc, punk philistine reverberation you’ve ever known entangled in a
labyrinth of sound and you’re halfway to appreciating how brilliant this is!
The opening
line, as mentioned, comes from ‘Devil’ an energetic blast of frenzied rock and
roll with its boots firmly laced up and aiming kicks at your head. Rather
originally, it’s preceded by ‘Curtain Up’ a composition around one minute long
and consisting, in the main, of some endearing piano coincidental with
something you’d often find compassing the silent black and white movies of the
50’s. On ‘Let Me Feel The Love’, a fusion of Marilyn Manson discord hand in
hand with discothèque smudges, resides a true air punching anthem of a chorus.
The synth driven scampering of ‘Still Alive’ and glammed up promenade that is ‘Dirty’
further inflates the versatility in residence on this record. There’s a solid
piano beat chaperoned by punchy drumming on ‘The Tragedy’ before a return to
some filthy rock and roll on ‘Tonight Only’.
A slice of
backward electronica is the protoplasm that floods the life into ‘Freak Among
The Freaks’ just as the frenetic stomp of modernistic punk and roll is the
animation for the very brilliant ‘Spaceman’. The desperate reiteration of the
author on tragic love anthem ‘I Miss You’ with its grandiose structuring enhancing lyrics like ‘you
leave me in silence and I’m scared it’ll never stop’ will twitch even the
steeliest of eyes. Bombastic metal/synth
anthemic flavouring on ‘The World Goes Bang’ has a garnishing effect on the
penultimate ‘God Damn You All’ then it’s full fat synth and guitars for dessert
courtesy of ‘Goodbye’.
We’re only
2 months into 2008 and there shall be many exceptional records still to come
but this one has shown enough spirit and energy to be hanging from the tip of
the keyboards when the end of year polls reveal who’s cut the mustard!
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