SDZ RECORDS

PLASTOBETON EP (SDZ 008)

After the ultra-limited comp cd-r on tanzprocesz comes the first Ep of the infamous Plastobeton from Metz, France. Band includes members of AH KRAKEN, FEELING OF LOVE, THE DREAMS...crude synth-punk with razor-sharp guitar and gut-wrenching vocals. All songs in french except the post-nuclear anthem "Hard to kill". Another shot to the brain from la GRANDE TRIPLE ALLIANCE DE L'EST.

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Reviews:

"Good extension of France's drumbox punk tradition - sputzy rhythms, anguished bellows, shimmering feedback and butt-scraping guitar shards. The new addition has to do with a psych-style organ gush, that sounds like it was hidden behind a wall for a long time. It's enough to make anyone eat a goddamn baguette. With gusto."
- Byron Coley / The Wire, August 2009

"Following that brace of rainy spit we’ve got Plasto Beton’s opening salvo, a self-titled 4-song EP on SDZ Records. A brace of wickedly noisy French synth punk dirges fond of shitty drum programming and nicely acidic guitar leads from droogs that normally do time in A.H. Kraken and Feeling of Love. A band like A.R.E. Weapons is a good touchstone, especially for the lunatic barking and scuzzed oscillations of “A31" and “La Prison”, both of which sound dredged from some Metz dumpster where they located Martin Atkins sucking down week-old baguettes. Elsewhere, “Ete 1983" is gloriously stupid Atari-core that’s more than a little danceable, and not in a sissy way like all that Kitsune crap, and closer “Hard to Kill” has a drooling Clock DVA feel to it, albeit one interrupted by sub-atomic machine gun fire and loads of ketamine."
- Jason Jackowiak / The Singles Collection - Impose Magazine

"A drum machine set to “MC 900 Foot Jesus,” barking dog guitar, and a person named Dixie Music pleading emphatically over the mic is the whole story behind France’s Plasto Beton, suburban funboys who may or may not listen to Rammelzee, ready for a night out at the leather bar. AH Kraken/Feeling of Love affiliation; I’m into one of those bands. Snarling and harsh, the group does what it can with pre-recorded rhythms and primitive drum machines, gargling driveway sealant and spewing it all over your sidewalk, in a recent tradition of spoiled decadents like A.R.E. Weapons, Flux Information Sciences, and Ghost Exits. The fashion’s not part of Plasto Beton – yet – so their woodshed antagonism still has a great deal of bite to it. Fun, goofy times. 500 copies, from France. It’s French."
- Doug Mosurock / Dusted Magazine

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