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 By
Chris Skoyles
There are loads of albums out there that
take ages to fully appreciate.
You know the ones; you stick ‘em in the stereo and something just
doesn’t seem right until eventually, after many repeated listens, you
finally ‘get it’.
‘For Tonight Only’, the debut album from Southampton-based
sleaze-merchants Plastic Toys is not such an album.Almost immediately, everything clicks wonderfully into place on this
instantly enjoyable ode to good times and great tunes.
‘For Tonight Only’ kicks off proper with ‘Devil’, a ravishing
sing-a-long romp that’s equal parts glam and electro-rock and which
serves only as a taster for the glitzy, gritty and grandiose pleasures
still to come.
And such pleasures are certainly here in abundance.
Whether it’s the stadium-ready anthem ‘Let Me Feel The Love’, the
haunting, Marilyn Manson-like, ‘The Tragedy’ or the supercharged
rock-fest that is ‘Spaceman’, there’s so much going on that it’s hard to
take it all in.
Yet take it all in we will, over and over again because this album is
just so enthralling. It’s a sexy, confident and charismatic collection
of delightfully dirty disco, head-pounding electro-glam and chillingly
dark goth-pop that deserves to be played repeatedly with the volume
cranked all the way up.
What an album to kick off the near year with. If Plastic Toys and their
exuberant debut are any indication of things to come this year, then
2008 is going to be an excellent year for music indeed.
In a nutshell: An eclectic, eccentric extravaganza of glam, goth, rock
and electro that is quite simply brilliant.
You might like this if you enjoy: Marilyn Manson, White Zombie, Nine
Inch Nails.
Recommended links:
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www.plastictoys.co.uk
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www.myspace.com/plastictoys
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