Go Plastic

Go Plastic
Studio album by
Squarepusher
Released25 June 2001 (2001-06-25)[1]
Genre
Length48:39
LabelWarp
ProducerTom Jenkinson
Squarepusher chronology
Selection Sixteen
(1999) 		Go Plastic
(2001) 		Do You Know Squarepusher
(2002)
Singles from Go Plastic
  1. "My Red Hot Car"
    Released: 21 May 2001[2]

Go Plastic is the fifth studio album by British electronic musician Tom Jenkinson, under the alias of Squarepusher. It was released through Warp Records on 25 June 2001.[1] It peaked at number 100 on the UK Albums Chart.[3]

Production

Unlike many of his earlier albums such as Hard Normal Daddy and Music Is Rotted One Note, which often prominently featured live instrumentation (particularly drums and bass guitar), the sound palette on Go Plastic is almost exclusively synthetic, with an emphasis on high-velocity breakbeats subjected to extensive manipulation and granular effects. In a contemporaneous interview, Squarepusher claimed to be "fed up" with real instruments, wanting everything "brutal and digital."[4]

Despite this, Squarepusher claims that the album was not produced using a computer, but rather by utilizing a range of hardware including the Eventide DSP4000 and Eventide Orville digital effects processors, Yamaha QY700 sequencers, Yamaha TX81Z and FS1R synthesizers, and an Akai S6000 sampler.[5][6]

Release

Go Plastic was released by Warp Records on 25 June 2001. It was released on both CD and 2xLP.

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic70/100[7]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[8]
Hot Pressfavorable[9]
LA Weeklyfavorable[10]
NME9/10[11]
Pitchfork5.1/10[12]
Playlouder[13]
PopMattersfavorable[14]
Rolling Stone[15]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[16]

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Go Plastic received an average score of 70, based on 17 reviews, indicating generally favorable reviews.[7]

In 2015, Exclaim placed it at number 2 on its list of "an essential guide to Squarepusher".[17]

Track listing

Go Plastic track listing
No.TitleLength
1."My Red Hot Car"4:42
2."Boneville Occident"4:50
3."Go! Spastic"6:21
4."Metteng Excuske v1.2"1:08
5."The Exploding Psychology"6:43
6."I Wish You Could Talk"4:53
7."Greenways Trajectory"7:10
8."Tommib"1:19
9."My Fucking Sound"7:05
10."Plaistow Flex Out"4:28
Total length:48:21
Japanese bonus track
No.TitleLength
11."Hardcore Obelisk"5:24

Charts

Chart Peak
position
UK Albums Chart (OCC)[3] 100

References

  1. ^ a b "Go Plastic". Warp. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
  2. ^ "My Red Hot Car". Warp. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
  3. ^ a b "Squarepusher". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
  4. ^ TechTV interview 2001 on YouTube
  5. ^ Rockin' On Magazine (Japan) interview 2004
  6. ^ "Squarepusher Interview – Brutal Sound". MusicTech. 7 September 2015. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
  7. ^ a b "Go Plastic by Squarepusher". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
  8. ^ Bush, John. "Go Plastic - Squarepusher". AllMusic. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
  9. ^ Sweeney, Eamon (7 June 2001). "Go Plastic". Hot Press. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
  10. ^ Osbaum, Stacy (25 July 2001). "Squarepusher". LA Weekly. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
  11. ^ Pattison, Louis (21 June 2001). "Squarepusher : Go Plastic". NME. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
  12. ^ Schreiber, Ryan (26 June 2001). "Squarepusher: Go Plastic". Pitchfork. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
  13. ^ Alphabet, Adam (9 July 2001). "Go Plastic". Playlouder. Archived from the original on 2 August 2003. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
  14. ^ Koba, Kirsten (9 July 2001). "Squarepusher: Go Plastic". PopMatters. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
  15. ^ Blashill, Pat (30 August 2001). "Squarepusher, Go Plastic". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 5 May 2002. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
  16. ^ Hoard, Christian David; Brackett, Nathan (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 773. ISBN 9780743201698. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  17. ^ Keating, Daryl (13 May 2015). "An Essential Guide to Squarepusher". Exclaim!. Retrieved 7 August 2017.