The Plastic Waste Band - Crushed (2019)

We are living in an increasingly foreboding world. We are told of the destruction that is forthcoming, of the misery that is already here. Environmental collapse looms clearly ahead, and yet the powers of the world are doing little to stop it.

As artists, it seems that there is a degree of compromise that must be made when faced with these facts. How can we spend our time working on our art when we know and care about things that seem so much more important, so much more pressing? Is it our responsibility to incorporate these things into our work, or is healing the world someone else’s job?

This album seeks to address this predicament. Rather than offering an answer, the music is an attempt to embody the issue itself. Beginning to end, it takes on forms of chaos to order, darkness to light, fear to love. Crushed is about the issue of creating art in the face of our own destruction, as well as the beauty that can grow from its ruins.