What Kind Of Human Have I Become

What Kind Of Human Have I Become

Memory Gut

Soft Abuse

What Kind Of Human Have I Become is home for the everyday neuroses of Matthew Plunkett, who listeners might know for his involvement with two of New Zealand’s recent greatest, The Cuticles and The Trendees. If you’ve steered your ship close by the shores of The Cuticles then you’ll have some idea of what goes on throughout the twelve songs of Memory Gut: gorgeously non-pro pop and non-pop songs, marinated in hazy psychedelia, but with both feet firmly planted on the ground. It’s practical music, but surreal, too.Plunkett started writing and recording material for What Kind Of Human Have I Become during pandemic times, in the sleepout at his home in the South Island’s Oamaru. After releasing a self-titled album on Bandcamp, compiling stray moments from the sleepout sessions with other detritus, Plunkett started collaborating with Stefan Neville (Pumice) on the project, recording in the latter’s Queen Street studio (shared with Ben Holmes of Oxsun Ox etc). A seven-inch slipped into the world on Soft Abuse mid-2024; now, the mighty Memory Gut.What Kind Of Human Have I Become allows Plunkett to dive deep into his art and writing. There’s plenty going on in these songs – a welcome roughness and playfulness, and adroit melodicism, and a touch of both profundity and colloquialism in the lyrics and their delivery. Asked about this, Plunkett discusses a fondness for the potential in the meeting of the radical and the everyday, mining the unconscious for material, and rubbing up against the physicality and sensuality...

What Kind Of Human Have I Become

Avoiding The Diggy Diggy Dogs

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What Kind of Human Have I Become is a new vehicle helmed by Matt Plunkett (Cuticles, The Trendees, etc.). Conceived as a solo endeavor, the designation got a bit blurry following an invitation to record his new songs with Stefan Neville (Pumice, etc.) at the studio he shares with Ben Holmes (Oksun Ox, etc.) in Auckland. Once in the studio, Plunkett’s songs puffed in a wholly new way with Neville at the controls, and backing and bits from both Neville and Holmes perhaps channeling Nag and Bendie. Fans of Matt’s past and current activities will find much to rejoice in here; Avoiding The Diggy Diggy Dogs plucks three songs from the sessions. More to come in due time.