Sugar & Plastic Plates by Tickles

For fans of Idles, Viagra Boys, Guck, sludge metal, and forgetting exactly how old you are when you’re asked because those birthdays stopped being exciting years ago, Sugar & Plastic Plates by Tickles bemoans the cruelty of the passage of time through their surprisingly accessible brand of noise rock. Though most analyses of the aging process highlight our impending physical deterioration, Tickles instead walks us through the slow encroachment of suffocating loneliness, both as a product of the natural social dynamics of age and an increasing mass atomization. These catchy, shout-along choruses express a universal outrage at our seemingly irreversible lot in life, implanting instantly memorable mantras into our minds that resurface whenever we encounter such degradation in our own lives. Drumming up collective grievance may not solve the problem automatically, but a mass acknowledgement of this horrendous track we’ve put ourselves on could inspire us to find ways to reconnect ourselves as we age, including through art with which we may assemble and exorcise our demons together.