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Ire Works
EMAILPRINTby The Dillinger Escape Plan
Universal acclaim
Based on 15 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 41 votes
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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.
Also By This Artist: Miss Machine
Also On The Web: Official Artist Site
What The Critics Said
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...
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.
Read Full Review >PopMatters
The rest of us will continue to drink in the boldest, most thrilling album of this supremely talented band’s career.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Alternative Press
The Dillinger Escape Plan are far from dead and te sound they pioneered is only getting stronger. [Dec 2007, p.171]
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.'
Read Full Review >Mojo
Ire Works is a thrillingly hostile racket containing 13 wild bursts. [Dec 2007, p.110]
Q Magazine
The third album is equally uncompromising, atonal industrial noise offset with melodious crooning, never settling for predictable paths. [Dec 2007, p.115]
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.
Read Full Review >Pitchfork
More than ever, DEP have songs. They're also the band's most colorful to date.
Read Full Review >Drowned In Sound
It’s a frighteningly powerful album that will be adored by open-minded newcomers and "Miss Machine" converts alike.
Read Full Review >Billboard
The New Jersey crew is still cranking out metal as frenzied and choppy as a machete-wielding madman, yet twice as schizophrenic.
Read Full Review >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]
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."
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
