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- Summary: The inventive but challenging hardcore outfit returns with their first full-length studio recording since 1999's 'Calculating Infinity.'
- Record Label: Relapse
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Experimental
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Positive: 10 out of 11
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Mixed: 1 out of 11
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Negative: 0 out of 11
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It's the (insert made-up genre here, including the word 'progressive' and/or suffix '-core') album of the year.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Rage, speed, and math are still here; but theres a cinematic scope and a real attention to mood and texture thats new.
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New Musical Express (NME)As intelligent as it is ferocious. [31 Jul 2004, p.40]
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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.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 9 out of 10
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Mixed: 0 out of 10
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Negative: 1 out of 10
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Jan 21, 2022
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vicmarbAug 24, 2005this album is too serious, if you like counting crazy time signatures......by all means please
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mauroAug 9, 2004awesome. best hc/metal/grind cd of the new millenium
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davegSep 3, 2006Different but fun.
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BeercanSep 22, 2004
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TrilobiteAug 9, 2004
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caseylJul 29, 2006it will never compare to calculating infinity and the new singer seems out of place almost giving this album a "funny" sound
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