Considering Trouble, one of metal's greatest ever band's, releases an album about once every decade, 'Plastic Green Head' was a slight disappointment after the brilliance of 'Trouble' and 'Manic Frustration'. 'Plastic...' was sure to welcome the stoner crowd rather than doom-psych fans, as the whole record certainly has that lazy, dreamy feel as if too much of the weed had been inhaled during its creation. 'Plastic...' is crisply produced, but the band, now free from the reigns of Def American, seem to be lacking something on this record, but what, I can't quite put my figure on. There is still much to behold, the title cut and 'The Eye' are classic slabs of groove-based doom, and the now rather formulaic lamentable 'Requiem' sweeps in with pure majesty, but the the album seems to lack the darkness of 'Trouble' and blissful swagger of 'Manic...', the songs wistfully striding by to no real effect, despite every number being a reasonably heavy, riff based ground shaker. Wagner is on form as usual, only this time his sinister preachings are not as malevolent, and the two cover versions, of The Monkees 'Porpoise Song' and The Beatle's 'Tomorrow Never Knows' are frustratingly pointless when we could have had two more Trouble soundscapes to devour.
Overall, 'Plastic...' is a very good record, but the competition of the last two albums seemed to be just too big a shadow to emerge from.
7.5/10
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