PLAINS is the brainchild of Michael McGinnis. Born and raised outside of Chicago - McGinnis began making his own music in earnest just a few years ago when he moved to Miami to sleep on couches and work as a studio rat. Spending endless late nights employing a healthy amount of bourbon and cycling through a few albums worth of songs, the album PLAINS was born. On this eponymous debut record, McGinnis molds a sound and a style that is equally indebted to a love of blue-collar punk and rock bands as much as the technical world and history of audio engineering. There's a studio polish with a heavy coat of permanent stains on all the walls. Lead single “Innovator” barrels in with a chunky kick to the ground, while faded synths and chorused guitars linger in the background. The track exemplifies the PLAINS sound with each instrument fuzzed out, leaving plenty of air to breathe.

The entire album was played live by McGinnis and the sound falls comfortably somewhere in between an arena and a basement. Lyrically, there's some dark stuff in here. On songs like "End Of The World" and "All I Want" - you get the well-relatable sound of something once solid, now somber and falling apart. The debut album is ripe with the fruits of a patient and pensive rumination. This is tightly wound rock that's been mulled over and perfected in the just right ways.