Punk driven noise rock from Philadelphia featuring members of Creepoid, Fight Amp, Ecstatic Vision and Powder Room

The five mysterious members of PLQ MRX are a motley crew of self-proclaimed ‘acid freaks, sex addicts, dealers, pimps, and clowns.’ Somewhere between Flipper and Funkadelic, the quintet’s grimy wall of rock churns forward with an air of lysergic jubilance, a walloping dirge whose swirling squalls of guitar are peppered with de-tuned trombone, clown samples, and drunken howls. Across five twisted tracks of cacophony and swagger, the EP evokes the chaotic rites of Butthole Surfers’ early years.
Connoisseurs of the dangerous and depraved might recall a Philadelphia band known as Plaque Marks, which surfaced initially in 2017, releasing one EP, ‘Anxiety Driven Nervous Worship’ on Reptilian/Learning Curve, and touring the US with Unsane.
PLQ MRX picks up where Plaque Marks left off like a crazed phoenix rising from those ashe