Plantoid - Terrapath

Released 2nd February 2024

Take a look at the cover art for Plantoids debut album, the jazzy, prog-rock opus Terrapath. In a desolate, misty landscape, amassive half-vegetable, half-machine structure resembling a spaceship looms above figures shrouded in shadow. Its weird andeerie, but it also ignites a feeling of wonder and nostalgia, like cracking open your favourite sci-fi novel as a kid. It harkens back to70s rock artwork, where ornate fantasy scenes gaze back at you from dusty vinyl gatefoldsand yet it was created with thedecidedly modern AI software Midjourney. In short, its the perfect visual for a band that is able to marry both the old and the newin a fresh and exciting way.

Musically, Plantoids cauldron harnesses multiple subgenres at once to concoct a sort of primordial soup, the molecules of whichare built as much from progressive rock as they are jazz, fusion, folk, and even a bit of 70s hard rock for good measure. The bandbeg