| 100 |
Playlouder
The album is a parasite, a pollutant, and should be kept well away from children and old people.
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| 90 |
L.A. Weekly
His best effort yet.
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| 90 |
Splendid
Few electronic artists working today have the balls or the skills to pull off an album as unconventional and uncompromising as Go Plastic...
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| 90 |
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]
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| 80 |
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.
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| 80 |
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]
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| 80 |
PopMatters
Fast and furious with moments of melodic intimacy, it is music for the intelligent and adventurous.
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| 60 |
Mojo
An album which makes his previous excesses seem conservative.... Dazzling though this bombardment is, it's a draining experience. [Jul 2001, p.97]
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| 60 |
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.
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| 60 |
Q Magazine
Tom Jenkinson shares Aphex Twin's mischievous way with a beat but lacks his respect for melody. [Aug 2001, p.141]
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| 60 |
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]
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| 60 |
Mixer
Quite an experiment in not only the limits of drum 'n' bass, but listenability as well. [Jul 2001, p.81]
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| 60 |
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]
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| 51 |
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.
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| 50 |
Resonance
The album disappoints. [#32, p.58]
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| 40 |
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.
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| 40 |
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?
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