Description
Plastic Coated Dream Land is a six-track cassette EP by the New Zealand alternative rock band Hunting Man, self-released on Beatnic Alley in 1991. The EP was engineered by Matthew Hyland at The Lab Recording Studio in Auckland, New Zealand; with the band producing and arranging. All songs written by the band with lyrics by lead vocals Dean McQuoid (except track B3 written by McQuoid only).
Hunting Man features Dean McQuoid on lead vocals, bass, acoustic guitar, and background vocals, Thom Cochrane on keyboards, Nick Davies on electric guitar, and Dean Rush on drums
For some reason, I used to think the name of this band was “Plastic Coated Dream Land” and the tape was called “Hunting Man.” This was because I got some mp3s of this demo that had it reversed, and listed as a 1987 release. I can see why they got it backwards – the cover certainly makes it seem that way, but the liner notes refers to the band as “Hunting Man.” They also appear on the ACM Journal: 3rd Anniversary Compilation CD as Hunting Man as well. The sound is a bit familiar, but hard to pin down. Imagine a Sunset Strip commercial band that was more influenced by The Cult than Motley Crue, but had some distinct slight influence of bands like Enuff Z’Nuff. But some songs, like «Homeland», sound more like a mix between U2 musically and Midnight Oil (lyrically). It’s actually a really interesting combination that could have gone somewhere, but I don’t think they did, sadly. [The Christian Underground Encyclopedia, July 23, 2018]
Cassette tracklist:
Side One
A1. “Flower Child”
A2. “Chains”
A3. “A Town Called Money”
Side Two
B1. “Homeland”
B2. “Generation”
B3. “Solitary Man”
Note: Fold out J-card, paper labels. (All songs © Hunting Man June 1991.) An advertisement for Hunting Man’s independent EP was featured in issue #8 of ACM Journal, published in February 1992: “New Zealand band Hunting Man, Debut E.P. out now, Plastic Coated Dream Land, Beatnic Alley, Stress Music Co”
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