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Miss Machine - The Dillinger Escape Plan
Metascore
80 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
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  1. Drowned In Sound
    100
    It's the (insert made-up genre here, including the word 'progressive' and/or suffix '-core') album of the year.
  2. Playlouder
    90
    Giant mutant rats are running about the place with gasmasks and guns. Their eyeballs are electric red, firing lightning bolts of acid, spit and shit and blowing up the place and the furniture.
  3. All Music Guide
    90
    After five years, the band has lost nothing, only gained.
  4. PopMatters
    90
    When a band like the Dillinger Escape Plan is able to duplicate the intensity of the previous album, yet at the same time create music that actually possesses (gasp!) commercial appeal, daring to cause an uproar among dyed-in-the-wool hardcore fans, you know they're on to something memorable.
  5. Spin
    83
    Gleefully impurist and highly addictive. [Sep 2004, p.122]
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  6. Tiny Mix Tapes
    80
    Miss Machine simply crackles with stress; not stress over homework or girlfriends, but the kind of stress a bunch of semis put on a bridge.
  7. Dusted Magazine
    80
    Rage, speed, and math are still here; but there’s a cinematic scope and a real attention to mood and texture that’s new.
  8. New Musical Express (NME)
    70
    As intelligent as it is ferocious. [31 Jul 2004, p.40]
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  9. Stylus Magazine
    70
    The group’s move toward a math-metal-industrial fusion is a welcome one that should help to bring them fans that have never heard the group before.
  10. Pitchfork
    68
    DEP is still struggling to re-establish a unified and compelling sound, and their newfound penchant for melodic exploration seems out of place amid the album's most inspired thrash moments.
  11. Village Voice
    40
    The last 10 or so minutes of the CD veer between bursts of riff noise more smoothly recorded than expected and washes of music to watch soft porn by, indicating the charm of being proudly abrasive and busy is wearing off.
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9.2 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 19 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 8
  3. Negative: 1 out of 8
  1. daveg
    10
    Different but fun.
  2. caseyl
    3
    it will never compare to calculating infinity and the new singer seems out of place almost giving this album a "funny" sound
  3. vicmarb
    10
    this album is too serious, if you like counting crazy time signatures......by all means please
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