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It's Not Comfortable To Grow

712.7K streams

712,667

Suddenly Everyone Explodes

623.8K streams

623,837

Everything Is Yellow and Yellow Is My ...

397.1K streams

397,066

Inhale the Universe

366.3K streams

366,303

Elastic Time

336.8K streams

336,834

Girl Boy Girl

301.2K streams

301,173

Disco Wings

268.5K streams

268,498

Disco Wings FYP

262.9K streams

262,938

Something Better

250.8K streams

250,799

Disco Wings

246.3K streams

246,281

Biography

They’re surfers, they build their own effects pedals and they once sketched out the designs for a synthesiser played entirely by pigeons – but on their second full-length album, the endlessly inventive Isle Of Wight five-piece Plastic Mermaids are facing their dark side. At the heart of Plastic Mermaids is the creative force of two brothers, Douglas and Jamie Richards, sons of a Gurnard boat-builder, who approach life like an art project, putting as much love into their band’s visual concepts and staging as they have into their unique brand of psych-rock and electronica. Plastic Mermaids’ music – neo-psychedelia, chamber pop, big-scale sound-scapes and innovative electronica – has often attracted comparisons to the Flaming Lips, but it owes just as much to their own personal melting pot of influences: Zappa, Pink Floyd, Bowie, Fleetwood Mac and classical. “We were always worried about how we’d get on to playlists, how to be pigeonholed,” says Douglas. “Now I’ve started to think, f*ck it, let it be. You’ve just got to love it for what it is,” – a sound world that is theirs and theirs alone.