Plastic Mermaids reveal new video for latest single ‘Taxonomy’

Plastic Mermaids unveil their new video for latest single ‘Taxonomy’, taken from their debut album ‘Suddenly Everyone Explodes’ released via Sunday Best Recordings.

The self-produced animated visual (in the style of Bruce Bickford who crafted all the classic animations for Frank Zappa) involved the band roping in fans to help out via their social media.

“I’m pretty sure Bruce Bickford spent years on each video though so we knew ours wasn’t going to be quite as good,” says Jamie from the band. “We committed to the idea, then Doug did some maths and realised that if we shot one frame every minute it was going to take us 54 hours of constant animation.

"Not wanting to die of exhaustion, we decided to put a message out on our socials to see if we could get any extra helpers and we had about 20 Plastic Mermaids fans (of all ages) come and help us with the model making and animating. It was still a pretty intense experience trying to average one frame every 30 seconds and if we hadn’t had anyone help us we’d probably still be animating now! Strangely enough we found out that Bruce Bickford died when we were half way through making the video, so although we couldn’t possibly achieve anything on his level of animation, it still felt like a nice (strange) little tribute.”

Live dates

MAY
30 Rough Trade East London

JUNE
02 The Great Estate, Cornwall
04  Rough Trade Bristol

AUGUST
09 Boardmasters, Cornwall
25 Victorious, Portsmouth

Suddenly Everyone Explodes Tour

SEPTEMBER
14 Tapnell Farm, Isle of Wight
18 The Georgian Theatre, Stockton
20 Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff
21 Patterns, Brighton
23 The Bodega, Nottingham
24 Think Tank?, Newcastle
25 Hug & Pint, Glasgow
26 YES (Pink Room), Manchester
28 Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds
30 The Sunflower Lounge, Birmingham
OCTOBER
01 Crofters Rights, Bristol
02 The Bullingdon, Oxford
03 Scala, London