pluko

The quirky, occasionally lo-fi electronic dance music of Pluko may not be what one might expect from an artist whose resume includes tours with ODESZA and sets at the Ultra Music Festival and Electric Forest. From 2016 breakthrough single "Breath," released when the songwriter/producer was still in high school, to the textures on albums like sixteen (2018) and COLOR BLIND (2020), his work is a bit more than what the genre usually allows. This may be a product of the unique point-of-view from which Pluko originates. Born Sam Martinsen in 2000, he grew up in Hollidaysburg, a sm...