Label: Apollolaan Recordings - APANO23

Apollolaan Recordings。なんと河端一等とのバンドSplendor Mystic Solisのメンバーとしても活動するアヴァンロック作家Steve KrakowのソロPlastic Crimewaveの限定100部CD-R。全てがモコモコと曇ったサイケな音像で放出される、ボーカルも何を言っているのかさっぱり分からないローファイロック？13作。全てが異なるハンドペインティングジャケ。

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With Plastic Crimewave’s Steve Krakow being something of a psychedelic curator/torch-carrier, you might well expect the Apolloaan label to have done something a little out of the ordinary for the cover. They did – all of the 100 hand painted covers are unique. Originally a very limited here-and-there ‘showcase’ tape of demos, Apolloaan have pulled this from the wiki history books into the here-and-now. Krakow keeps his vision here defiantly no-fi across the 13 tracks, there’s no room for bombast in his slumped-over but skyward seeking visions. There’s a seeming lack of concern for fidelity here that’s beyond no-fi or lo-fi, Plastic Crimewave are just nonchalant. Weird pop are the go-words here, Krakow’s guitar fuzzpop psych decorating the record with an experimental lean to the left. At times it likes Roky sitting alone in the pantry, inner space wandering/daydreaming – fuzzpop at the ready – and elsewhere there’s acid punk, fucked flamenco touches and a definite air of psychedelic coquetry. A record of great psych and pop instincts, it demands investigation. 8/10 -- Scott McKeating (10 March, 2010)