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Ire Works

EMAILPRINTby The Dillinger Escape Plan

The Dillinger Escape Plan reviews
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8.1 User Score:

Album Info

Label: Relapse

Release Date: 13 November 2007

Discs: 1 disc

Genre(s): Rock

Summary

The New Jersey hardcore rock band's third album is their first without drummer Chris Pennie.

What The Critics Said

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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.

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90

PopMatters

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

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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.

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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.'

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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.

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80

Pitchfork

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

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80

Drowned In Sound

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

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80

Billboard

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

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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.

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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."

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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.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 8.1 (out of 10) based on 41 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Ryan R. gave it a10:
This is a GREAT album. The best from DEP. One of the best albums to come out in 07!

Tobias C. gave it a9:
Great disc wish they would do all melodic vocals those are always their best.

David F. gave it an8:
A couple of songs I don't like, but they are the longest ones. Leaves a long wait for a short payoff.

Mas T. gave it a10:
This is the best album of 2007 with no other contender.

Alan S. gave it a10:
Best album of 2007.

What? What? gave it an8:
Not bad. Good metal, good math, good ambience, good fun. They seem to have regressed musically a bit, but that's all Black Bubblegum's fault. Diverse if anything, and definitely not for hoods-up, know-nothing scenster morons who don't even understand how to change time signatures.

TI T gave it a0:
it sucks, weany ass drivel, where did they go wrong? head for Ion Dissonance, Braindrill, Anomalous, Origin for the real deal.

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