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Go Plastic

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 17 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 11 votes
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Album Info
Label: Warp
Release Date: 26 June 2001
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Electronic, Experimental
Summary
This is the fifth full-length release from Tom Jenkinson (aka Squarepusher). "My Red Hot Car" is the lead single.
Also By This Artist: Do You Know Squarepusher Hello Everything Just A Souvenir Solo Electric Bass 1 [Live] Ultravisitor
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Playlouder
The album is a parasite, a pollutant, and should be kept well away from children and old people.
Read Full Review >Splendid
Few electronic artists working today have the balls or the skills to pull off an album as unconventional and uncompromising as Go Plastic...
Read Full Review >Alternative Press
Go Plastic fuses the insanely intricate beat programming of Feed Me Weird Things and Daddy with the abstruse experimentation of 1998's Music is Rotted One Note. It's the best of both worlds. [Aug 2001, p.98]
CDNow
In anybody else's hands, a blending of techy aesthetics and near-tender melodies would be a musical oxymoron, but in Squarepusher's, it is delicious.
Read Full Review >The Wire
What's striking is that he's less wacky than he's ever been, instead pursuing a rougher, more complex sound. [#208, p.66]
PopMatters
Fast and furious with moments of melodic intimacy, it is music for the intelligent and adventurous.
Read Full Review >Mojo
An album which makes his previous excesses seem conservative.... Dazzling though this bombardment is, it's a draining experience. [Jul 2001, p.97]
Sonicnet
The album is short on the wistful melodies and jazz overtones that have made Squarepusher stand out from his fellow post-everything experimentalists, making Go Plastic -- notwithstanding "My Red Hot Car" -- something of a disappointment.
Read Full Review >Q Magazine
Tom Jenkinson shares Aphex Twin's mischievous way with a beat but lacks his respect for melody. [Aug 2001, p.141]
Blender
It's all clever and overstuffed with ideas, guaranteed to bug dance-music purists just as much as it annoys their parents. [Aug/Sep 2001, p.130]
Mixer
Quite an experiment in not only the limits of drum 'n' bass, but listenability as well. [Jul 2001, p.81]
Urb
It's a mix of contemporary hardcore and vintage Squarepusher where he never lets things settle, scrabbling away with sublime and obnoxious results. [Sep 2001, p.152]
Pitchfork
Go Plastic exhumes the corpse of stuttering, fast-paced percussion and arbitrary programming that was bled dry and buried in a time when the Y2K bug still signified economic collapse and nuclear meltdowns.
Read Full Review >Resonance
The album disappoints. [#32, p.58]
Neumu.net
The glassy-eyed micro-manic bass-'n'-breaks belligerence on show-offy tracks on this Squarepusher longplayer is either tellingly tired or terrifically tiring, with Jenx's wicked licks of brown-note boogie either spuriously slow in the foot or a swift kick to the collective ass of a collectively ass-kissing musical community.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone
For sheer virtuosity, you gotta hand it to the guy - he sure can make a lot of really weird noises. But who cares?
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 9.9 (out of 10) based on 11 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Jay W gave it a10:
it's just so amazing ,a great D'n'B album ever made
chris Med gave it a10:
Now that I have had the past half decade to familiarize myself with all of Tom's work and have deliberated endlessly about which of his works is his greatest. I have little doubt left that this is truly his masterwork. Do You Know SP? had a better "single" leadoff track but this album had it all. Awesome lead track, some of his craziest work ever and really the best collage of tracks from any of his albums. There are just no duds on this one like there are occasionaly on all his other albums... not a missable moment here. Track to track there is also a lot of variation and probably something for every experimental electronic fan. CHOICE
Donald O. F gave it a 10:
imho the best album ever by mr T.J.
shitty spin stick gave it a 10:
where to begin..... tom jenkinson is THE daddy. If yr looking for a crappy pop band, u shud get this album anyway, because maby just maby it wud inspire you to think about music, rather than if its got lyrics in it. This man has balls, and i wudnt mind them in a jar. top notch........ peace
Frank z gave it a 10:
A sonic innovator. The best modern experimental record i've heard yet. Squarepusher defines the future of music on this record with fresh new sounds, conceptual free rythms, and teases us with a little bit of everything going on in the experimental world all at once.
Eoin gave it a 10:
My cat was not prepared for that album
[Anonymous] gave it a 10:
Tom's running blindfolded through a darkened room and who cares?
