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Go Plastic

Squarepusher - Go Plastic
Critic Score
Based on 8 reviews
2001 Ratings: #123 / 236
User Score
Based on 167 ratings
2001 Ratings: #153
Liked by 23 people
June 25, 2001 / Release Date
LP / Format
Warp / Label
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CRITIC REVIEWS

90
NME
Scream it in the face of the avant-garde: ‘Go Plastic’ doesn’t just prick pomposity, it steamrollers it. Meanwhile, you won’t hear another album like this all lifetime. Come to fucking daddy, indeed.
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.

80
Drowned in Sound
The thrillingly sheer physicality of the music blasts it through the stratosphere, way above many of Jenkinson’s rivals.
80
AllMusic
Fans of Squarepusher from the beginning will be overjoyed to hear him back doing what he's done best.
80
The Guardian
It's not gimmick-driven: Jenkinson is a wickedly talented musician, with a real taste for subtlety and structure. His world just goes by at a head-frying pace, and he has an idea for every moment of it.
60
Q Magazine
Tom Jenkinson shares Aphex Twin's mischievous way with a beat but lacks his respect for melody.
51
Pitchfork

There is, as always, hope that he'll again equal, or maybe even surpass the timelessness of Music is Rotted One Note, but he's not going to get there by coasting.

40
Rolling Stone
Since Squarepusher proved that he can make fascinatingly mad noise sandwiches nearly four albums ago, one sorta starts to wish he'd try making something like a song. Now that would be sick and twisted.
Kelden
80

underrated

swataverse
75

My Red Hot Car is peak DnB

oakred
93

Listened while wondering around some fields in the middle of the night. Would recommend the same, it will make your ears ascend. Some of the most vivid and fast paced electronic music ever.

oakred
93

Listened while wondering around some fields in the middle of the night. Would recommend the same, it will make your ears ascend. Some of the most vivid and fast paced electronic music ever.

Scoobydont
75

You can see why aphex twin added this guy to his label.

80

Pretty need, my red hot car is peaked shit

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Added on: August 25, 2013