Distant Plastic Trees is the debut studio album by American indie pop band the Magnetic Fields, released in 1991.

[3] The album is noteworthy for its stripped down sound and largely synthesized instrumentation.

Distant Plastic Trees was originally released in Japan and the United Kingdom on the RCA Victor and Red Flame labels, respectively.

The album was released in the United States on the band's own imprint, PoPuP.

"[10] Trouser Press wrote that "the baroque pop structures of songs like 'Smoke Signals' are redolent of the classics Merritt clearly holds dear, but his impressionistic wordplay — which often alights on bracing, upsetting images — seldom settles into simple cliché.