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The Plastiscines are a French Girl group Rock music band who perform their songs in both French language and English language. They have released three albums, spanning from garage rock revival and pop punk to disco-orientered pop music.
The Plastiscines' name derives from the phrase, "plasticine porters with looking glass ties" in the Beatles' song, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", on the 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
The Plastiscines have been critical of French retailing of rock music. Louise Basilien has remarked that she learned about rock 'n' roll through her parents, the Internet, and by reading books: "the generation before us could not learn about rock 'n' roll because the stores here were rubbish". As a consequence, the French rock scene in 2006–07 was seen by many as fresh and exciting, even though the requirement that forty per cent of songs broadcast on radio in France should be in French continued to militate against bands who wished to perform in English (which, because of its American origins and British dominance in the 1960s, has always been the prime language of rock 'n' roll).
In 2009, Marvin Scott Jarrett, Editor-in-chief of NYLON magazine, founded NYLON Records and signed the Plastiscines as its first act, after seeing them on the cover of French fashion and style magazine Citizen K. The Plastiscines were featured on the TV series Gossip Girl episode "They Shoot Humphreys, Don't They?" at the Cotillion ball. Their song "Bitch" was also featured on the same episode. The music supervisor on Gossip Girl, Alex Patsavas, noticed the Plastiscines' record, and has written several of the band's songs into the series. Their single, "Barcelona" was iTunes single of the week during the first week of January 2010.
In February 2010, they embarked on the 'Hot Mess Across The EU-niverse Tour' in support of Cobra Starship, along with Family Force 5.
In December 2010, it was announced that they would be producing the music for the comic book-based, animated TV show titled Little Gloomy. "Et si vous investissiez dans un "cartoon" pour réduire vos impôts?" {"And if you invest in a "cartoon" to reduce your taxes?"}. FiscalOnline.com, Paris, December 6, 2010. ( English tr.) Marine Neuilly left the band. They are featured on the song "Nearly Witches (Ever Since We Met...)" by Panic! at the Disco on their third album, Vices & Virtues. They are also featured on the song "Fool Like Me" by Cobra Starship on their fourth and final album, Night Shades.
Such bands tended to be scorned at the time by some elements of the press for their bobo ( bourgeois bohème or bourgeois Bohemianism) backgrounds: in other words, they were portrayed as "the spoilt kids of rich parents playing at being rock stars".
The band's second album, About Love, was released on 21 June 2009 by NYLON Records. A three song EP was made available on 21 April 2009 and contained three songs from the album: "Barcelona", "You're No Good" and "I Could Rob You".
In April 2013, the Plastiscines released "Coming To Get You", the first preview of their new album Back to the Start set for release in 2014. Two other songs from the album, "Ooh La La" and "Comment Faire", were released in May 2013. Back to the Start was released in full 28 April 2014. This album was different from their prior releases as the Plastiscines dropped their rock sound and opted for a more electronic and pop sound.
| 2007 | LP1 | 61 |
| 2009 | About Love | 138 |
| 2014 | Back to the Start | 171 |
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