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Come on, it's DEP

Private Quentin Tarantino Fan | nowhere | 09/09/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"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"