What’s next for Plastic Face?

So Plastic Face, love the new track, why don’t you tell us a little about yourself? How would you describe your music?

Thanks a lot ! We also really like your website ! Our music is like a dark brown, suede, size 10 cowboy jacket with oversized tassels, worn studs, sparkling epaulettes, with a rainbow rattle snake wearing a Hawaiian shirt patch sewn in on the back. Picked up from a legit two dollar op shop with proper grandmas and nannas eating scones and drinking cups of tea behind the counter chatting about the weather. Soothing & comforting.

Can you tell me a bit about your inspiration for Hiivision?

The song ‘HiiViSiON’ was written right smack bang in the middle of the pandemic. Pete had just fled back from NZ and was hot off the plane and into quarantine. Will had this covid19 beat, Pete had this pandemic chord progression and as the crow flew east on a hot summer night, the song was born. The song isn't necessarily about someone, it’s more a state of mind.

What about the inspiration for the film clip?

The HiiViSiON video was written and directed by one of our close friends Sean Clancy Donovan. The inspiration behind the video was to create something unique, something the viewer could lose themselves in and finish the video thinking. “What the hell just happened”. Before they know it they’re watching it again and again.

Written and directed by Sean Clancy Donovan. DOP - Jay Grant MUA - Ilona Kish Starring - Johanna Dias, Daniel O'Leary, Plastic Face Grade - Dan Molony On set...

What’s the most ridiculous fact you know?

Praise to Science ! We are so glad you’ve asked us this question, it’s been something we’ve been needing to get off our chest now for quite some time. Did you know that the guy who invented Pringles chips is now buried in an oversized cylinder pringle tube.

-In 1966, Fredric Baur developed the ingenious idea for Procter & Gamble to uniformly stack chips inside a can instead of tossing them in a bag. Baur was so proud of his invention that he wanted to take it to the grave—literally.

Also, one more thing we’ve been discussing on the reg. Do you think unicorn urine would taste like lemonade ?

How did you get your start in music?

We have been Comrades now for around 15 years. We'd have to say, in that time we’ve played in a bunch of different bands all with different genres, played a ton of shows here at home in Australia and also over in the UK, Europe and The States. We have written about 5000 songs and have ingested copious amounts of good times! So it’s safe to say we started our music venture together way back then. Plastic Face is our new baby that we have been working on for quite some time now.

How does the song writing procedure work for you?

Depending on whether or not we are both living in the same city or the same country, whether we are in the same room together or on different ends of the globe it doesn’t necessarily matter. We've become used to the process of writing a million miles away from each other and also that vibe of having wines in someone’s backyard playing guitar on a sunny afternoon writing tunes, both are quite different but in the end achieve the same result. We are constantly sending each other small snippets of music, vocal ideas, sounds or samples, films, scores, conspiracy videos, books, online sites, art, anything really that makes us excited and inspires us to write something. We quite like always reinventing the way we write , new ideas are constant and it certainly unlocks something that maybe we couldn’t achieve if we were to write in a conventional setting every time .

What bands have influenced your sound?

We both have such a broad and eclectic taste in music. We will throw a few random links to you guys we love -

Ravi Shankar
Bach
Chopin
Billie Holiday
Chet Baker
Hendrix
Travis Scott/Rosalia
Arca
Carbon based lifeforms
Kyuss

What’s on your Spotify playlist at the moment?

Okay stuff we’ve been listening to- zhu, niles frahm, james blake, moses sumney, tame impala, rosolia, nicholas jarr, sabrina claudio, the internet, theo parish, arca, chemical brothers, princess nokia, the war on drugs, jungle, nick cave, king gizzard and the lizard wizard, childish gambino, gesaffelstein, octavian, sleaford mods, disclosure, the chats, kylie’s new record up in there also