From the depths of North Philadelphia’s underground comes PLQ MRX, a project operating at the intersection of abrasive noise rock, acid-soaked psychedelia, and warped funk. With their new album UPSIDEYERHEAD, the collective delivers a sound that is confrontational, heavy, and deliberately excessive – rooted in punk and noise traditions while pushing toward stranger, more unhinged territory.

Musically, PLQ MRX exist somewhere between Flipper’s intensely distorted and sloppy guitar noise and the lysergic looseness of Funkadelic, filtered through a distinctly noise- and psych-rock sensibility, drawing comparisons to early Butthole Surfers. The result is a sound that is louder, heavier, and weirder than its influences – raw, physical, and intentionally disorienting. “The greatest selection of new, different and exciting tunage to rock yer soul and twist yer melon!” proclaim the band.
Beyond the music itself, PLQ MRX cultivate an aesthetic steeped in excess, altered states, and grotesque carnival imagery. Their world is populated by surreal characters and exaggerated rituals, exploring pleasure, debauchery, and sensory overload. The band leans into both the highs and the ugly turns of the trip, embracing chaos as a core element of its identity.
PLQ MRX rise from the remnants of the Philadelphia band Plaque Marks, who first surfaced in 2017 with the EP Anxiety Driven Nervous Worship. While the lineup has shifted and identities remain deliberately obscured, PLQ MRX pick up where that project left off – continuing its feral energy while pushing the sound into more expansive, hallucinatory, and self-aware territory. Members of the collective are affiliated with projects such as Unsane, Ecstatic Vision, and Swans, further anchoring PLQ MRX within a lineage of uncompromising underground music.

With UPSIDEYERHEAD, PLQ MRX present a record that feels less like a traditional album and more like a full-contact experience. “Swing on the wildest trip of yer life!” gush the band. “If you want to know the facts about the new ¡PLQMRX! album UPSIDEYERHEAD ask a doctor, your pharmacist, the police or perhaps yer local clergy... BE WISE NOT WEIRD!! Turn on to the NOW sound before you can't turn it off! Freak out with the lead-poisoned derelicts of the Philly scene, and be gassed up when it happens! THEY'VE GOT WHAT YOU WANT!!! A dope created ecstasy avalanching into frightful perversions that will shock and repulse the weak.”
Unfiltered, unapologetic, and operating far from the center, PLQ MRX are out for kicks – and out for trouble. UPSIDEYERHEAD is an invitation to step inside their twisted universe and surrender to the noise. Coming out February 16. Pre-order from now on here.

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LINEUP:

Cleetus Alreetus Alrightus - vocals
Midnight Moses - guitar, vocals
Lord Calvert - keyboards, samples
Bob Nohope - bass
Vinnihana - drums

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