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Sales Rank: 26433
Category: Music
Artist: The Dillinger Escape Plan
Publisher: Relapse
Studio: Relapse
Manufacturer: Relapse
Label: Relapse
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 766699
UPC: 781676669929
EAN: 0781676669929
ASIN: B000VL9XE2
Release Date: November 12, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | Fix Your Face | | • | Lurch | | • | Black Bubblegum | | • | Sick On Sunday | | • | When Acting As a Particle | | • | Nong Eye Gong | | • | When Acting As a Wave | | • | 82588 | | • | Milk Lizard | | • | Party Smasher | | • | Dead As History | | • | Horse Hunter | | • | Mouth Of Ghosts |
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Album Description
Incomparable musical visionaries The DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN have returned! The legendary band instantly reclaims their place at the forefront of the modern music world with their brand-new full-length Ire Works. From the instantly memorable Fix Your Face & Horse Hunter (signature examples of the band's innovative, high-energy rock), through the scintillating pop immediacy of Black Bubble Gum, the DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN simultaneously amaze and remind why their musical exploits are the stuff of legend. For Fans Of: SYSTEM OF A DOWN, DEFTONES, NINE INCH NAILS, REFUSED, and progressive, futuristic music
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 Intelligent Anger June 19, 2008
The polarity inspired by this release is interesting. I'm inclined to not begrudge the complainers their opinions. It's fine if you don't like the album, but to suggest one knows whether or not this is or isn't DEP without actually being in the band is plain silly. These folks would have you believe that the "real Dillinger" was "Calculating Infinity," that Dimitri "was" DEP and that everything released since his departure isn't the real thing, that the technical genius of "Under the Running Board" was completely revolutionary but then sacrificed for a sell-out. I couldn't disagree more. Early DEP is pretty amazing and complicated, but it seemed like an extension of what Coalesce started, only taken to a much more intense, technical level. Interesting, jaw-dropping at times, but not revolutionary in the strict sense. But something funny happened when Dimitri left the band and Mike Patton took over for an EP. The band did what some of its fans haven't: it matured. And continues to mature.
Understandably some fans of the early releases won't want to come along for the ride. That's fine. But they don't get to decide what "the real DEP" is. "Ire Works" is a swirling, immense, beautiful, terrifying piece of work. Alternately haunting and brutal. DEP's early releases were technically masterful and incredibly complex and they could, like Slayer, have continued to make the same album over and over with minor tweaks and improvements. Instead, they pushed their own boundaries to make increasingly challenging music at the risk of alienating their original fans. Ire Works is just the natural progression of their maturation. The band has learned to control its fury and have become more impressive in knowing when to release it and it what amount. Pure uncontrolled aggression is interesting, but it's not nearly so powerful as when it's turned on arbitrarily against a backdrop of sweetness.
Ire Works plays in a number of musical styles and is richly textured. It starts out in furious form with "Fix Your Face" and ends with the beautiful, epic "Mouth of Ghosts," making stops at pop, math, funk and thrash in between. The last song may be the most difficult for the old guard to get their heads around, but it is lush, layered and hostile all at the same time and prone to staying in one's head long after it's over.
This may not be the album for everyone, but it is a challenging, brilliant and deeply satisfying work for those of us who've enjoyed DEP's progression from their early days.
No ire here June 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
While it still wouldn't be quite accurate to describe the Dillinger Escape Plan's work with such labels as "song-oriented" or "mature," there's no denying that Ire Works represents the continuation of a significant progression for the band once known largely as some of the craziest noise merchants in all of extreme music. Their legendary debut Calculating Infinity became an instant classic with its combination of stunning instrumental skill and relentless pounding aggression, but starting with the one-off Mike Patton-fronted EP Irony is a Dead Scene and continuing with 2004's Miss Machine and now this latest full-length, DEP have dealt out their aural punishment in less consistent and more meaured doses while adding increasing levels of accessibility and diversity to their sound. That the band has been able to expand and modify their sound without sacrificing the intensity at its core--through consistent lineup changes, no less--is a testament to their nearly unparalleled musicianship and creativity. And those fans who have remained with the band from the beginning have been rewarded here with DEP's most complete and best album yet.
Of course, despite all the changes to be found on Ire Works, the band's older fans should still find plenty to like. About half of the songs here are signature DEP punches to the face, complete with the manic guitar runs, pummeling irregular rhythms, and imperious howls that fans have come to expect. Even on the more traditional tech-metal tracks, though, the band never succumbs to predictability--witness Horse Hunter, where the heaviness fades out and then comes roaring back without warning every time you're about to get comfortable. However, it's on the other, less traditionally psychotic tracks that DEP really branch out and give their listeners some new sounds to absorb. Black Bubblegum sees Greg Puciato's normally confrontational vocals alternating mainly between acerbic sneering and falsetto crooning, with a catchy melodic refrain that would've been unthinkable during the Calculating Infinity era. Milk Lizard is one of the most straightforward tunes the band has done this far, but any concerns about its relative accessibility are more than offset by how outrageously awesome it is, from its insanely infectious main riff to its big sweeping chorus to the free-jazzy piano bits that pop up about midway through. The oddball instrumental When Acting as a Wave and the cavernous, menacing epic Dead as History even introduce some electronic elements that combine with DEP's customary scathing guitars to create an industrial-tinged sound that portends an interesting new direction for the band. It's not quite Skinny Puppy or Ministry, but it's a start.
By the time the album closes with the atmospheric, six-plus-minute epic Mouth of Ghosts, it's clear that DEP are positioning themselves as more than just your average angry tech-metal band. Overall, Ire Works is yet another classic effort from a band that's managed to transcend its hyper-aggressive roots without abandoning them. Five stars, easy.
mathcore? June 8, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
it doesn't matther what anyone says this album rules no matther what dillinger escape plan rules.You say this is a new kind of dep but the only thing that's different is they are experimental now,you knew they changed since irony is a dead scene with mike patton because if you compare calculating infinity to irony is a dead scene,you will see some difference right? yeah it still had the heavy insane mathcore but it added some industrial or experimental and same with ire works and miss machine only it has more of it.So a different dep?yeah since irony is a dead scene but don't judge because ire works is still pretty heavy but miss machine heavier and more mathcore than this one so i recommend getting this one you'll love it,when you hear the song black bubblegum(that one is a new kind of dep)you might not like it at first but you'll find yourself rocking out on it.Greg to me is the best singer dillinger has had even if he sings many songs that are kind of slow,he sings the old songs pretty brutal better than the original singer and better than of course mike patton,really have you seen him live,he's out of control!So get the damn record it's still heavy this is future metal,well that's what they say SO GET IT!
Great album if you enjoy complex musicianship May 13, 2008
Dillinger Escape Plan put out another great effort with this album, as of this review their most recent. There are traces of the previous album Miss Machine, but they also seemed to have gone back more to their older album that essentially defined a new genre: Calculating Infinity. If you enjoyed these other albums or any of DEP's other albums, you should enjoy this latest effort. Overall a great outing that may be the DEP's final album on a CD.
REALLY COOL! March 28, 2008
This album is really good many people talk about this album like if they slow down or something i mean it's pretty heavy but songs like black bubblegum and mouth of ghosts are on the down side,black bubblegum is a pretty good song tough the first time i heard it i was like na not that good but the more you listen to it it gets better.Miss machine was better than this one but ire works is a good album if you like dep than get this altough the last song is not that good.Dillinger escape plan is just a metal band from the future their older stuff might have been heavier but this still rocks.This is just crazy metal heavy,futuristic,wild,insane,and just COOL!
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