{"product_id":"plastic-death-vinyl","title":"Plastic Death [Orange Vinyl]","description":"Plastic death - the second album by Glass Beach - is a follow-up record almost five years in the making. The band's 2019 debut, aptly titled the first Glass Beach album, has over the years grown a cult fanbase for it's unflinching depiction of queer life as mediated through social media, it's oversized ambition, and it's scrappy yet adventurous production. And while it took some time to arrive, plastic death sounds like the logical expansion of all the things that made their first album so special.\u003cbr\u003eYears and years of relentless writing, tinkering demos, cancelled tours and a few lockdowns only strengthen the chaotic core of what makes Glass Beach's maximalist approach work so well. Frontperson and primary songwriter J McClendon is joined by lead guitarist Layne Smith, bassist Jonas Newhouse and drummer William White to create something adventurous on each song. Trumpet, trombone, violin, and even marimba dance and bloom alongside the band's own creative and dextrous instrumentation - a stunning, transformative creation that pulls from indie rock, jazz, prog, hardcore, metal, experimental, and beyond. Songs like lead single \"the CIA,\" are examples of the band's ambitious writing. It's a dark, dancy, post-punk\/jazz hybrid, a coordinated, breathless braid of synth and saturated guitar. Tension and confusion explode into a brutal modern metal climax to close the track, flickering with glitchy production zaps and razor-sharp stops. The artwork of plastic death is similarly rich with detail, resulting in a bioluminescent, fully-realized double album depicting sprawling scenes where moments of neon brightness shine momentarily in a dark undersea - a metaphor for the moments of optimism and catharsis Glass Beach provide on these songs. \"This album is the Pacific garbage patch: cultural trash strewn together seemingly by accident, standing in stark juxtaposition to each other,\" says McClendon. plastic death is a complete, uncompromising, playful work of art; every corner and crevice of the record's 13 tracks, each arrangement and timbre and texture, is alive with intention and possibility.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTracks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Coelacanth\u003cbr\u003e2 Motions\u003cbr\u003e3 Slip Under the Door\u003cbr\u003e4 Guitar Song\u003cbr\u003e5 Rare Animal\u003cbr\u003e6 Cul-De-Sac\u003cbr\u003e7 Whalefall\u003cbr\u003e8 Puppy\u003cbr\u003e9 The Killer\u003cbr\u003e10 The Cia\u003cbr\u003e11 200\u003cbr\u003e12 Commatose\u003cbr\u003e13 Abyss Angel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Glass Beach","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44287463555289,"sku":"810097915800","price":5800.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0586\/0468\/3425\/files\/Glass-Beach-Plastic-Death-_Vinyl_-73568935.jpg?v=1762270298","url":"https:\/\/drownedworldrecords.com\/en-jp\/products\/plastic-death-vinyl","provider":"Drowned World Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}