Plasmas
Dundee quintet Plasmas announce debut ‘A Summer’s Day Can Break Your Heart’, due for release on 21st Oct and share new single ‘Notice’.
Switching things up since their last single (“See It Through”), the track sees bassist James Swan taking the lead on vocal and writing duties for the first time. “Notice” was written in the haze of one of those languorous hot days, where there’s little on the agenda and all the promise of a long summer ahead. Feeling the blissful sensation of nothingness and everything all at once, James felt the song’s words and melodies fall naturally into place. Speaking about the experience that formed the track he says: “I remember sitting down on my living room floor with my acoustic guitar, lounging in a sunbeam shining through the window, and being overcome with a feeling of complete bliss. It’s a bit of a cliché but everything just came so naturally and I didn’t purposefully set out to write anything of substance at that moment. Before I knew it I had written the whole song and was demoing it to bring to the rest of the band. It’s the first song we’ve done where Ross isn’t the lead vocalist so I think it’s allowed us to flaunt our versatility somewhat.”
Yet through its carefree chords and its seemingly laissez-faire nature, there’s a sense of melancholy layered through its lyricism. Almost like a love song played at different RPMs, “Notice” is about a relationship operating at different speeds, drifting steadily further apart and heading towards an inevitable conclusion. “It’s about seeing your relationship with someone dwindle in slow-motion, and realising that they’re either completely ignorant to it or simply don’t care that it’s happening. Eventually you come to the realisation that there’s nothing you can do to reconcile” says James.
