HAVING played its part in establishing Ash, The Wannadies, The Guillemots and The Futureheads, Fantastic Plastic rounds up some of its most invigorating 7in vinyl releases on this fine sampler, its 100th release.
There will be songs you like more than others, but there's not a duffer in sight - even the fey C86 wispiness of Umlaut's Wintercoat has a pasty-faced charm all of its own.
Decidedly more muscular is the old school, wall-of-noise punk of The Beatings' Bad Feeling; while Peel faves Bearsuit weigh in with the playful, weirdly saucy Foxy Boxer.
Willie Campbell comes on like the bastard son of Jackie Leven and Bournemouth's very own Help She Can't Swim give their avant-pop full rein.
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