Plastique Valentine
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{{Infobox album
| name = Plastique Valentine
| type = Album
| artist = Humpers
| cover = Humpers 97.jpg
| alt =
| released = February 11, 1997
| recorded = 1996/1997
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| studio =
| genre = Punk
| length =
| label = Epitaph Records{{Cite web|url=https://www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/03-27-97/qscans.htm|title=Quick Scans (March 27 - April 2, 1997)|website=www.tucsonweekly.com}}
| producer = Sally Browder{{cite news |last1=Rodriguez |first1=Kenn |title=California's Humpers try to avoid musical traps |work=Albuquerque Journal |date=21 Mar 1997 |page=E18}}
| prev_title = Live Forever Or Die Trying
| prev_year = 1996
| next_title = Euphoria, Confusion, Anger, Remorse
| next_year = 1998
}}
{{music ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{rating|3|5}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/plastique-valentine-mw0000092705|title=Plastique Valentine - The Humpers | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic|via=www.allmusic.com}}
}}
Plastique Valentine is the fourth studio album by punk rock band the Humpers, released in 1997.{{Cite web|url=https://mycitypaper.com/articles/100997/sixpick2.shtml|title=The Humpers|website=mycitypaper.com}}{{cite journal |last1=Myers |first1=Ben |title=Oily Cranks/Plastique Valentine |journal=Melody Maker |date=Feb 8, 1997 |volume=74 |issue=6 |page=52}}
Critical reception
CMJ New Music Monthly thought that the album "displays a band eye-ball deep in punk tradition that's so thoroughly absorbed its influences that comparisons and parallels are moot."{{cite journal |last1=Stegall |first1=Tim |title=Reviews |journal=CMJ New Music Monthly |date=Apr 1997 |issue=44 |page=34}} Miami New Times determined that the new songs "swagger with more assurance and confidence than the frantic older stuff."{{Cite web|url=https://www.miaminewtimes.com/music/doll-parts-6360989|title=Doll Parts|first=John|last=Floyd|website=Miami New Times}} The Bradenton Herald called the album "hot trailer trash punk flavored with searing '50s roadhouse piano."{{cite news |last1=Cubarrubia |first1=Eydie |title=EXPAND YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS AT BONK FESTIVAL |work=The Bradenton Herald |date=March 7, 1997 |page=W4}}
AllMusic wrote that "though the songwriting is a bit limited—it's hard to find a hook anywhere on the record—its gut-wrenching, visceral rush is harder and more punk than most of the Humpers punk-revivalist contemporaries."
Track listing
- "Plastique Valentine"
- "For Lovers Only"
- "Anemia"
- "Mutate with Me"
- "Fable of Luv"
- "Make Up"
- "Sick of Tomorrow Today"
- "Here Comes Nothing"
- "With a Whip"
- "Dummy Got a Hunch"
- "Chump Change"
- "Say Goodbye"
- "Mongrel Train"