Plini announces new EP ‘Sunhead’

PLINI has announced a new EP!

The upcoming EP, titled Sunhead, is the latest offering from the prolific Australian guitarist and is scheduled to be released in July this year. The EP is released ahead of his second European tour this summer and a monster European tour this autumn with TESSERACT and BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME.

Sunhead features a range of collaborations, including backing vocals and production from SKYHARBOR‘s Devesh Dayal (Salt + Charcoal), saxophone from THE 1975’s John Waugh (Flâneur), piano and keyboards from Anomalie (Flâneur) and a guitar solo from Tim Miller on Sunhead. The recording line up is completed with drummer Chris Allison and bassist Simon Grove, with PLINI performing everything else.

The EP was written, recorded and produced by PLINI himself – and for the most part, all from a bedroom studio. Speaking about the EP, he says, “I started working on the material almost straight after Handmade Cities was released in 2016, sort of with the goal to make a very big, small EP – aiming to put as much detail and refinement into the composition and playing as possible. Both musically and emotionally, the music is greatly influenced by the amount of touring and travel I’ve done in the past couple of years. I was particularly inspired by ANIMALS AS LEADERS (who I toured Europe and North America with in 2016), by the musical adventurousness in their last album, and DISPERSE (who I toured with in Europe in early 2017) for the way they seamlessly combined contemporary pop and electronic elements with prog-metal – updating a genre that sometimes seems (ironically for the name, “progressive”) entrenched in old musical cliches. Aside from this, I think the Sunhead EP is a musical expression of the pure excitement that comes with traveling to new places, meeting new people and eating new things.”

Alongside the announcement of the new EP, PLINI has released a brand new music video for previously released single, Salt + Charcoal. The new music video was filmed on his recent US tour.

Watch the official music video for Salt + Charcoal here: 

Sunhead is set for release on July 27th via self-release.

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