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Product Details:
Audio CD Release Date:
November 12, 2007
Studio:
Relapse
Number Of Discs:
1
Average Customer Rating:
based on 36 reviews
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
Track Listing:
1.
Fix Your Face
2.
Lurch
3.
Black Bubblegum
4.
Sick on Sunday
5.
When Acting as a Particle
6.
Nong Eye Gong
7.
When Acting as a Wave
8.
82588
9.
Milk Lizard
10.
Party Smasher
11.
Dead as History
12.
Horse Hunter
13.
Mouth of Ghosts
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AwesomeNov 18, 2008 This and Miss Machine are great records. I think fans who say "it isn't like they used to be" need realise two things. 1. People grow over time, so why would they express themselves in the same manner as they did when they made Calculating Infinity. Secondly, why would you want someone to make the same record again and again.
Crazy and delicousNov 07, 2008 After buying BTBAM's Colors, I was telling a friend of a friend about how I really like it and he expressed his disgust for them saying they were too Mathy, like Dillinger Escape Plan. After I told him I had never listened to them, he quickly responded with "Yeah... DON'T." I'm glad I didn't listen to him, because this CD is AWESOME! Some of the songs are a bit crazy, and take a few listens to get used to, but alot of them are straight up amazing. My only real gripe with this CD is that the tracks are often quite short, and the CD as a whole is short too. Although compared to Colors, alot of CDs are.
I had no idea what to expect...Oct 23, 2008 I am no good at writing reviews. I'll start with that. Anyway I had no idea what this album would be like. Never listened to DEP before and just kinda picked it up on a whim based on the fact that they are "mathcore" on wikipedia. I got something so much better. This to me is amazing Technical/Experimental Rock/hardcore/metal (whatever). I love the album starts off quickly with Fix Your Face and Lurch then slows down into Black Bubblegum and Sick on Sunday (old school fans apparently hate that? heh, too bad). The pacing is pretty much amazing like that all the way through...hardcore into awesome industrial-esque? into another hardcore song.
On first listen I was like "wtf everything is so short with these weird parts in between the songs". Second listen "this is sweet". Third listen, no thoughts, just rockin out.
I can't speak to old school DEP fans...I can't speak to fans of whatever genre this is supposed to be in. But if you are like me that you like hard stuff and like it when an album changes pace on you and keeps you on your toes while still delivering some amazing technical guitar work and awesome screams (yes with, god forbid, SINGING mixed in as well), then I would most definitely check this out. I can foresee this being in my car's cd changer for quite a while.
Come on, it's DEPSep 09, 2008 One thing that I can admire for Dillinger is their need to try new things. The band has mentioned, several times, about how naysayers try to put them down for not going back to their "old style", and they put silence to those people. While I am a huge fan of Calculating Infinity, I like the new direction these guys are taking with every album. Sure, not everything they put out is amazing, but it's a great evolution.
Ire Works already has a new drummer playing, and Gil Sharone does an excellent job. They better not treat this guy like Metallica did when they got a new bassist, or else they deserved to be smacked. Sharone is killer just like Pennie. He seems to have a style unlike Pennie, which maybe explains why the songs fair a bit better than they do on Miss Machine (went it comes to straight up charging tracks). Everything else rules for the most part.
Ire Works seems to have two different types of songs: The Crushing and exhilerating, or experimental. One of the albums faults lies in the former songs, there isn't enough good ideas. This particular kind of shows up on the later songs, though none of the songs on here stink. The Experimental is pretty much successful, though Dead as History kind of fails in some parts. Still though, excellent work, in most parts, and it's easily their most accessible album yet, due to the clean production and straight up brutality yet melodic riffs.
You get two tracks that rip out from the start. Fix Your Face features Dimitri on vocals (heck yes!!!) and rips over roaring vocals, and Lurch goes manic and grooves like a maniac with a gun dancing. The "radio" song (yeah right), Black Bubblegum, is a fun song with a great rhythm. Sick On Sunday and When Acting as A Particle both are pretty successful tries at experimenting (though when Greg suddenly screams in the formal, it's an absolute hoot, and that's in a bad way). Nong Eye Gong is another fast song to keep up the momentum, and the album pretty much goes like that. Needless to say, it rips and is exhilarating, what else is there?
A must listen for anyone who likes DEP.
8.0/10
Intelligent AngerJun 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.
based on 36 reviews
