Brighton art-rockers Flip Top Head are very good at making small, everyday things feel loaded, and new single ‘Porcelain Plugs’ is a perfect example. Taken from upcoming EP Trilateral Machine, it’s delicate, gothic, and quietly unsettling.
Inspired by Sylvia Plath’s musings on hot baths, ‘Porcelain Plugs’ circles guilt, vulnerability and the strange comfort of private rituals. Musically it drifts between hushed intimacy and swelling art-rock drama; never quite settling, always keeping you on your toes.
With Trilateral Machine landing later this month and a stack of live dates lined up, ‘Porcelain Plugs’ is a beautifully strange teaser of what’s to come.
Upcoming Headline Dates:
24 JAN // Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
25 JAN // Blackpool, The Bootleg Social
27 JAN // Hull, Polar Bear
28 JAN // Sheffield, Sydney and Matilda
30 JAN // Norwich, Voodoo Daddy’s
31 JAN // Northampton, The Lab
1 FEB // Luton, The Castle
6 MAR / Manchester, The Rat and Pigeon
7 MAR // London, The Lexington
12 MAR // Bristol, The Louisiana
14 MAR // Brighton, St Augustine’s Church