Citizen XI - Elastic Plastic vs. Synthetic Electric (2017)

What do you get when you combine influences as diverse as Joe Satriani, Frank Zappa, Muse, Rush, Janes Addiction and the Cult? You get Elastic Plastic vs. Electric Synthetic. Citizen XI is the creative dumping ground of anti-mercantile awkward musical endeavors. Each song is what it is meant to be. Defiance. Defiance of labels, names, branding, marketing, styles, rules, predetermined ideas of what should or shouldn't be...this is not an album to please you or make you happy, provoke thought or sell units. It just is pure rebellion of art. If you want to listen to group of adolescent silver spoons put together by big label money, dressed for success, produced by career producers and backed by a team of marketing executives purchasing social media 'likes' go somewhere else. This is art completely created by a single artist with each sonic brush stroke triggering a new neural direction, a new phonic pattern, a new olfactory landscape, sometimes perceptively sensibly familiar, sometimes not.