title: Imaginative Plain
text: # Imaginative Plain
  
  Imaginative Plain is the fourth studio album by Mainliner, released on April 25, 2001 by P.S.F. Records.
  
  ## Reception
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | Tiny Mix Tapes | |
  
  In writing for the Chicago Tribune, Kevin M. Williams noted that the music sounded as if "The Stooges were jamming with the MC5, with a guest appearance from Jimi Hendrix, and they've lost the set list, so they're just rocking out" and that "Kawabata makes a strong case for a slot in the shredder hall of fame, laying down sheets of precise, note-rich frenzy from his severely overdriven guitar." In a retrospective review, Tiny Mix Tapes awarded the album four-and-a-half out of five stars, saying "until experiencing Mainliner's Imaginative Plain, I’d never heard an album compressed within an inch of collapsing into a black hole, so dense that only pure distortion could escape."
  
  ## Track listing
  
  All tracks are written by Asahito Nanjo.
  
  ## Personnel
  
  Adapted from the Imaginative Plain liner notes.
  
  ## Release history
  
  | Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalog |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Japan | 2001 | P.S.F. | CD | PSFD-125 |
  