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plastic death (Pre-Order)
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glass beach
plastic death (Pre-Order)

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Please Note, this item is for PRE-ORDER! All items are expected to ship by JANUARY 19, 2024. *Any orders containing a "Pre-Order" item will ship together when the pre-order ships. Please make a separate order if you wish to receive non pre-order items before the pre-order ship date.*. Please allow 2-3 weeks for delivery.

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Join the Run For Cover Magic Circle Vinyl Subscription to secure the exclusive Undersea Swirl variant of plastic death, limited to 100 copies. Sign up and learn more by clicking here.

2xLP vinyl pressing includes spot-glow in the dark gatefold jacket, printed inner sleeves and a jumbo 24" x 24" album art poster.

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 its unflinching depiction of queer life as mediated through social media, its oversized ambition, and its 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.

Years 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.

Tracklist:
1. coelacanth
2. motions
3. slip under the door
4. guitar song
5. rare animal
6. cul-de-sac
7. whalefall
8. puppy
9. the killer
10. the CIA
11. 200
12. commatose
13. abyss angel

Pressing Information:
100 Undersea Swirl (RFC Magic Circle Subscription Exclusive)
500 Glow in the Dark Green (RFC Exclusive)
4100 Orange