Dundee five-piece – PLASMAS – return with a reverb-washed, retro-preened new single âSee It Throughâ.
Blending gauzy guitars with woozy pop vocals and glittering like a sudden beam of sunlight on a dreary day, âSee It Throughâ is the first glimpse of new music from PLASMAS in 2022 and arrives as an alluring and infectious track well-worthy of a late-night summer singalong.Â
With tight yet airy production, glistening layers of instrumentals and soaring hooks that tread the line between â90s pop and â00s shoegaze-flecked indie rock, âSee It Throughâ is optimistic and reflective in equal measure; dreamily nostalgic yet reinforcing PLASMASâ breezy upward trajectory.Â
Of the scintillating new single, lead vocalist Ross McQueen explains:
âI wrote this one in summer last year, on a belter of a summerâs day where I probably shouldâve been outside but instead was sat in my room hopelessly writing.Â
I had become obsessed with the idea of writing a song that could be the soundtrack for a â90s American sit-com, or a coming-of-age film. Something like âCrashâ by The Primitives or â99 Red Balloonsâ. Something cheesy andtongue-in-cheek but laced with just enough charm and self-awareness to get away with it. After many failed attempts and at the point of giving up, with a spirit of almost being past caring came the opening guitar melody and everything followed seamlessly after that.âÂ
âSEE IT THROUGHâ
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Caught up in a daze of giddy â90s rhythms, the track evokes the closing scenes of a classic teen rom-com, sleek and shiny as though stolen from one of the guitar-wielding bands that stare out from the posters adorning the lead female protagonists bedroom walls.Â
PLASMAS : Ross McQueen (vocals, rhythm guitar) Conor McBay (lead guitar, vocals) Rory Strathie (synth) James Swan (bass) Sam Walker (drums)
Dubbed by the band as one of the best trackâs theyâve written to date, âSee It Throughâ was produced once more by Guy Galactic, who worked on the bandâs earlier singles âAlwaysâ and âIs It Everything You Want?â. With nods to the multitude of influences that shaped their sound, the track dabbles in the retro-styled dream-pop of Newdad, the ansty shoegaze of bdrmm and the laidback sun-drenched rhythms popularised by the likes of Swim Deep and JAWS.Â
Ross adds:
âThis song just feels like a celebration of saying, âF**k it, why not?â. Itâs a breakup song, but not in the âI want you backâ kind of way. Itâs more about when youâve both moved on and are happier, but you just have that feeling in the back of your mind, âHey, what if we gave it another go?â. Obviously thatâs a terrible idea most of the time, but Iâm sure everyoneâs felt that way before. Itâs hard letting go sometimes even when you know youâre in a better place.âÂ
PLASMAS – UK DATES
27th July, Broadcast, Glasgow
29th July, Hunter S Thompson, Dundee
31st July, Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh
Tickets on sale now.