The band return with a brilliantly rageful and unpredictable single, encapsulating the chaos they do best.

Plutoz Beach are a unique prospect, offering organised chaos pooled from a huge breadth of musical reference points. Their live sets always light up their regular haunts of The Windmill and The George Tavern, with the brash lawlessness of the music mirrored by its outlandish performance. The band’s wider prominence grew at the start of the year with a feature on the Slow Dance ’23 compilation and now they are back with a new single, ‘Nobody Loves Me,’ which encapsulates their idiosyncratic magic perfectly.

‘Nobody Loves Me’ is exciting for its unpredictability, at every turn raising so many possibilities. The manic circus tent keys riff evokes Sgt. Pepper psychedelia, while the acerbic, fast-talking lyrics are punk in their simplicity and attitude. Lines like “I don’t give tissues to anybody” have that great petty iconoclasm that gave early Buzzcocks such verve, while the repeated refrain, “I was gonna go home then I went to the beach,” squeezed with deliberate awkwardness into its phrase, attests to the band’s free-thinking confidence to mess around with form.

Then, halfway through, the song breaks down into a self-destructing guitar driven section, adorned by Space Invader synths and uncontrollably winding lyrics. There is something of a rock band imitation of hyperpop to this moment of collapse, anchored by the flips between octaves and delivery styles in the vocals. This reference point also seems to inform wilful mutilation of the lyrical themes with evolutions like, “I don’t give wanks to anyone ‘cos I am a virgin, I am a virgin.” Then, at length, the keys-driven clarity of the opening returns with even greater gentleness, aspiring to the heavens even after establishing that “God doesn’t love me, Satan doesn’t love me.” The storm over without much resolution beyond the calming of the music, the song offers little consolation except visibility for the tangled rage of being you’re young, pissed off and out of love.