Plainsunset Retires

Photo: wakemeupmusic.com

Today we lament the end of one of Singapore's great 3-chord punk rock bands. Plainsunset is disbanding after a decade of heartrending performances and three seminal albums, each a delicate glass sun, filled with names of lost lovers. I've never seen mosh pits filled with fans as passionate as Plainsunset fans. Every single girl or boy pressing towards the stage seems to be searching for something, not just than a light, more than a fire. Plainsunset never offer the answer, with makes their music all the more tragic, painful, introspective. They create the need to feel, to yearn. A line from a song in their last record reads:


Photo: plainsunset.com

"When the sun rises again,
I will be there with you my friend,
and I will be there,
looking over your shoulder."


A moment of silence for the heartbroken emo kids, the Plainsunset fans. And the band, who have always been so fiercely adverse to the emo tag, who have changed so many hearts and done so much for the music scene, that as the sun finally goes down, you can't help that they're still there, looking over your shoulder. Don't forget them.