The second album from Helsinki 5 Piece Plastic Tones is wonderfully scuzzy. Old school maybe, but highly effective and equal to anything from the likes of Rumbar. Up and at 'em, yet incredibly melodic and thoroughly enjoyable.
Energetic, but with similarities to Power Pop in the way it uses riffs, solos and choruses, but much noisier. A little Punk at times, A little Garage Rock at others, but also able to drop in songs that are more Guitar Pop such as Dynamo and Dirty Work.
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The latter is already slated to appear on next week's Listening To This Week Playlist. The opener, We're All In This Together rocks in like something from The Motors. Very UK New Wave and all the better for it, it states intent.
I'm The One shows other skills, a longer piece, that even edges towards Classic Rock. More brooding instrumentally, less in your face. Waste Another Day has a vocal that isn't a million miles away from Stevie Nicks and has a killer chorus.
Nothing Romantic is pure Power Pop and the closer. You Can Do Whatever You Wanna Do, is like a Punk-ish anthem, a little Eddie And The Hot Rods in style. It rounds off a great listen. Can You Keep A Secret? is a great album.
You can listen to and buy the album here.
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