Plugs - Imaginary Friend

Groove hungry UK four piece Plugs made friends all over with their Spring
debut ‘That Number’, clinching Zane Lowe’s Hottest Record In The
World, single of the week accolades on 6 Music and Radio 2, and love
pouring forth everywhere from NME to MTV, and various corners of the
blogosphere.
· ‘Imaginary Friend’ is an elegantly crafted tail of bitterness and payback
laid over wonky technoid riffs and skuzzy basslines, working around jacking
rhythms and Chi Town snares, all building to a portentous and stirring finale.
· B side ‘Real Celebrities’ takes a more Motorik approach to the rhythm
section, but delivers an equally satisfying song and more of the kind of
punchy hooks the band are in danger of getting a reputation for.
· Taking things off on a tangent, hot new Lex signings Heartbreak take
another Plugs song, ‘Bodyheat’, for a little trip around central Italy circa
1983, and return with a neat Italo – Electro version of the ‘Spacer Woman’
kind.
· With a handful of Plugs remixes of other new acts due (We Have Band,
Post War Years) and a break in the clouds seeing them gigging again from
November onwards, Plugs look like ending 2008 with the same kind of
momentum they started it.

Tracks

Imaginary Friend * Body Heat (Heartbreak Remix) *
Real Celebrities * That Number (Yuksek Remix) *
That Number (Barringtone Mix)

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