Plastic Lung Demo 1 (Electric Therapy) CD
PLASTIC LUNG’s Electric Therapy is a four-track demo from this southern Italian three-piece that threads noisy post-punk with lyrics (in English) about surveillance capitalism, digital alienation, and self-destruction. The playing runs on tension: high-pitched, escalating guitar lines pulling against vocals that stay weirdly calm given the subject matter. The guitar solo about two minutes into “Surge of Destruction” goes completely sideways (in the best way), and the saxophone on “Deckard’s Way” isn’t just a JOHN ZORN panic squeal, it’s woven into the song like it belongs there. The recording sounds solid for a demo, the musicianship is there, and while the vocals don’t always match the intensity of everything happening around them, they don’t sink it, either. Four songs, and enough good ideas to make me curious about what comes next.