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Length
  
36:18

Artist
  
The Magnetic Fields

Producer
  
Stephin Merritt

Distant Plastic Trees (1991)
  
The Wayward Bus (1992)

Release date
  
1991

Label
  
Red Flame Records

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Released
  
1991 (UK, Japan) 1992 (US)

Similar
  
The Magnetic Fields albums, Other albums

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Distant Plastic Trees is the debut studio album by American indie pop band The Magnetic Fields, released in 1991. It features lead vocals by Susan Anway.

Contents

Content

The song "Babies Falling" is a cover of a song by The Wild Stares.

Release

Merge Records reissued the album in 1994 as a double album compilation with the band's second album, The Wayward Bus. The song "Plant White Roses" was omitted from the Merge reissue.

Track listing

All tracks written by Stephin Merritt and sung by Susan Anway except where noted.

Personnel

  • Stephin Merritt - songwriting, instrumentation and production
  • Additional personnel
  • Susan Anway - lead vocals
  • Ken Michaels - engineering
  • Wendy Smith - album cover
  • Art Daly - insert photo
  • Songs

    1Railroad Boy3:00
    2Smoke Signals3:29
    3You Love to Fail2:30

    References

    Distant Plastic Trees Wikipedia