Ol' Jack Boot E.P., by Plastic Bag

Ol' Jack Boot E.P.

by Plastic Bag

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1.	Ol' Jack Boot 04:41	info
2.	Acid Bath 04:32	info
3.	Black Feather 03:32	info
4.	Ol' Jack Boot (Pill Hobblers Remix) 03:16	info

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New band from Bristol. ‘Sharp and angular, post-punk politico funk for the now’ you could say. When they describe themselves as “post punk”, they use double inverted comma’s because a new terminology is needed… this is about now and not the past, says Ged Babey.

"Plastic Bag are a really good new band. They arrive ‘fully-formed’ as they say. My friends Phil and Tony are gonna really like them (I think) because they are old-school but brand-new, deadly serious – realising the importance or being earnest – and ‘political’, funky and smart."

I don’t know whether it’s because I know they are based in Bristol that I can hear echoes of Glaxo Babies – the most under-rated of all ‘post-punk’ bands – and on the dubby remix more recent material by The Pop Group springs to mind – but Plastic Bag have geography and history on their side, but it can be as much of a burden as it can an advantage.
Plastic Bag are not a young band. ‘I’m the youngest at 40′ Mark Vasey told me. It’s their experience and wisdom that means they sound like they have been doing this for years. There is an exactitude about their songs and music – yet within that a freedom to experiment – check out the remix with it’s squidgy electronics and digital dub sound. The EP is great and the tracks I’ve heard from the forthcoming album are just as excellent.

The dark-funk of Acid Bath is the most horrific narrative to ever include a sausage roll and Black Feather features the best incorporation of a tolling church bell into a song since Ennio Morricone. Ol’ Jack Boot is the slow-burning centrepiece though with it’s sonar echoes and clipped groove.

Our Human Rights eroded like our dying river banks…

Plastic Bag are not sloganeer punks or hedonist ravers or nihilists thinkers but have probably absorbed elements from those and other sources to make music they want to hear, imparting thoughts they want to share, trying to encourage some sort of resistance…

All I know, is that we need bands like this rather than the upper middle class art school confections thrown at us by the Londoncentric music biz publicity machine.

After all, the best bands come from Bristol.

quoted from Ged Babey's review in Louder Than War.

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released December 15, 2023

Phil Bond, Steve Dew, Jim Johnston, Mark Van Vasey

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Plastic Bag Bristol, UK

English/Irish Art Rock-Post Punk four piece. Plastic Bag bring a sound reminiscent of the guitar bands of late 70s New York.A dark snarling baritone vocal over intricate guitar work interweaving synths dropped in under a powerful rhythm section to blistering effect! ... more

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