Florida Man Detonate New Album “Plastique”

When Charleston, SC’s Florida Man were plotting their return and third full length, Plastique landed as the most fitting title. The album is a glossy collection of nine songs that transports the band’s foundational sound of razor sharp riffs, fuzzy bass and maniacal vocals into new territories of electronic experimentation, percussive ensembles and earworm chorus hooks. As Florida Man explodes into a new era with the release of Plastique, the band is feeling a sense of renewal and primed for whatever comes next.

Influences pull from a wide spectrum, citing Ceremony, Unsane, Nine Inch Nails and The Prodigy, what might seem like an odd combination has blended into an amorphous, melodic-leaning, hardcore punk meets noise rock experience. Lyrically each song tells its own isolated story, but moves through a fictional, lyrical thread detailing the habits and downfalls of seedy, powerful figures. Plastique is now available through streaming platforms and on vinyl via The Ghost is Clear Records.

“We felt like the various definitions of the word plastique represented the sound in many different ways – it’s aggressive and explosive, but slicker, shinier, and more graceful than our old music. We ended up adding in tons of new ideas and instrumentation that wouldn’t have been at our disposal if we had just done it band-in-a-room style, like percussion layers, samples, synths, etc. It gave us a freedom to experiment and tweak things during the writing process far more than we ever had before.” (guitarist Andrew Barnes)