Upchuck – Plastic

Atlanta’s Upchuck has signed to Domino and delivered ‘Plastic’, a two-minute sonic assault that strips artificiality down to its raw components. The track arrives courtesy of Ty Segall’s production and Heba Kadry’s mastering, transforming scuzzy guitars and spitting vocals into a manifesto against hollow authenticity.

The five-piece—KT on vocals, Mikey Durham and Hoff on guitars, Ausar Ward on bass, and Chris Salado handling both drums and vocals—operates with palpable unity across a track that races through perpetual evolution. Segall’s bare-bones production allows every jagged edge to cut through, while the band’s ethos emerges crystal clear: in a world of PVC hollowness, the search for genuine substance becomes an act of rebellion.

Chris Salado’s Spanish-language bridge delivers the crucial question: ‘Algo me hace falta’ (‘something is missing’). KT provides the antidote, hollering the solution with evangelical fervor: ‘know classics – know truths – know reason – know you’. This call-and-response structure anchors the song’s central tension between emptiness and authenticity, transforming punk aggression into philosophical inquiry.

The track operates as perfect introduction to their particular brand of incendiary punk. Their trajectory from 2022’s ‘Sense Yourself’ debut through 2023’s Segall-produced ‘Bite The Hand That Feeds’ has led to this moment of major label validation, though their approach remains defiantly uncompromising.