Dutch Nuggets Unveil “Plastic Lives” Video

Montreal’s Dutch Nuggets have released a new music video for Plastic Lives, a track from their latest album, Fishbowl’d!, that is out now via Thousand Islands Records (North America), Bearded Punk Records (EU) and Disconnect Disconnect Records (UK). With more music and art being made using generative AI, Dutch Nuggets wanted to go in the opposite direction, they dug out their childhood toys and created the video themselves using a camera, action figures, Play-Doh, cutouts of their own faces, Photoshop and After Effects. The result is a weird, funny and intentionally homemade video filled with references to Montreal punk and some of the bands and culture that have influenced Dutch Nuggets over the years.

“We’re excited to introduce our new music video for ‘Plastic Lives’! We’re seeing more and more soulless, generic things made with generative AI, and it was important for us to do something that feels tactile, homemade, sketchy even. As long as it was made by hand. So we dug out our old childhood toys and made the whole thing using a camera, action figures, our old faces, Play-Doh, Photoshop and After Effects! We also threw in several nods to the local punk scene, and beyond!”