‘Porcelain Plugs’ from Flip Top Head is a beautiful fusion of all of the right things
The Brighton band will soon need no introduction off the back of stellar tracks like this one.
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There’s always something so fun about listening to an artist or a group that you’re intrigued by, but have not had much prior contact with. Flip Top Head, not new to the music world as a collective, introduced themselves beautifully (to me), with Porcelain Plugs, a four-minute beauty that does a fantastic job of shifting and morphing into whatever the group needed at the time. From the build at the start, slowly rising until the vocals came in, to the shift of tone and production at around the midpoint of the song — everything the group sought out on a musical standpoint made for an impeccable listen from start to finish.
The way that everything first comes together, vocals and production, early on, gives me a well-received and well-appreciated reminder of the groups Grandaddy and Modest Mouse, both from around the late 1990s onward to the present. The way that the instrumentation is given the space to fill in the early portion of the song, and is never overbearing regarding how things are blended together, is something to really latch onto.
The genre of rock and its subsections — whether you consider Flip Top Head art rock, post rock, or something else entirely — is in good hands.
Porcelain Plugs is out now via Blitzcat Records.
