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Ire Works
by The Dillinger Escape Plan
The New Jersey hardcore rock band's third album is their first without drummer Chris Pennie.
| LABEL: |
Relapse |
| RELEASE DATE: |
13 November 2007 |
| DISCS: |
1 disc |
| GENRE(S): |
Rock |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
91
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Ire Works is a near-perfect pileup of craft and chaos--and it shows that Dillinger's recent injuries left some beautiful scars.

90
PopMatters
The rest of us will continue to drink in the boldest, most thrilling album of this supremely talented band’s career.

90
All Music Guide
It can be inaccessible and terrifying all at once, but in a genre overly saturated with formulaic groups, Ire Works is a true standout.

90
Alternative Press
The Dillinger Escape Plan are far from dead and te sound they pioneered is only getting stronger. [Dec 2007, p.171]
90
Hartford Courant
Ire Works is one of the best metal records released this year, full of brutal math-metal freakouts such as 'Fix Your Face' and 'Nong Eye Gong' and beautifully crafted, more melodic songs, including 'Black Bubblegum' and 'Dead as History.'

80
Mojo
Ire Works is a thrillingly hostile racket containing 13 wild bursts. [Dec 2007, p.110]
80
Q Magazine
The third album is equally uncompromising, atonal industrial noise offset with melodious crooning, never settling for predictable paths. [Dec 2007, p.115]
80
Boston Globe
The band is clearly comfortable with the medium that it occupies between aggressive and technical post-hardcore yet is beginning to tread new territory.

80
Pitchfork
More than ever, DEP have songs. They're also the band's most colorful to date.

80
Drowned In Sound
It’s a frighteningly powerful album that will be adored by open-minded newcomers and "Miss Machine" converts alike.

80
Billboard
The New Jersey crew is still cranking out metal as frenzied and choppy as a machete-wielding madman, yet twice as schizophrenic.

70
Spin
It's Dillinger's willingness to constantly incorporate new sounds--even commercial ones-- that makes Ire Works an experimental-rock touchstone. [Dec 2007, p.126]
63
The Phoenix
Ire Works is good science tarnished slightly by one bad experiment.

60
New Musical Express
Ire Works is their most controlled effort to date, even more so than 2004's mainstream-friendly (relatively speaking, of course) "Miss Machine."

40
Sputnikmusic
I can't help but admire the wondrous technicality of the band members, but I wonder if they could have deployed it in a more tasteful way.


The average user rating for this album is 8.3 (out of 10) based on 36 User Votes
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