Plaid - C/D S/D

listening to "After The Movie" and feeling high as anything

double figure turns 20 today

Gross

what exactly?

God I loved that album so much.

I was 14 when that one came out and I loved it. No real interest to revisit it, I tried a couple years ago and the nostalgia factor was what kept me listening... it didn’t age too well.

Looking at the tracklist I think this could’ve been more of a classic if you trim it to 10 tracks. It’s also frontoaded, the opening two tracks might be the best ones.

I have an old mp3 which is certainly Plaid, entitled "Knives Drawer", maybe got it off gabba/amp. The internet seems to know nothing about it, anyone have an idea?

new album is pretty nice. they have a weird thing going for me, most of their best tracks are on their 1995-2001 albums, but the ones from Scintilli on are the ones I always reach for. they just feel like better listens back to front. They Might be Giants are another band like this. no real surprises on this one, though "Wondergan" and "Nightcrawler" were both neat curveballs. last two tracks probably the best.

Yeah I agree. I preferred Polymer to this one on the whole. No surprises on this one other than maybe Wondergan, but it's not an unpleasant listen. They must have made 'Return to Return' at least three times by now.

I also find it amusing how every Plaid album that comes out these days has some sort of concept draped around it, even though they all just sound like Plaid albums

wasn’t much into the track but the video for “wondergan” is pretty cool