![]() Nothing To Forget is every bit as experimental as the output of a band like Vampillia, with Rymer and Liam Wilson’s erratic rhythm section underpinning said madness, but Puciato’s silken vocals and the introduction of orchestration change everything to add a full stop to the Dillinger Escape Plan’s recorded work. ![]() Bungle bullying Randy Rhoads atop a mountain made of calculators – and Puciato’s piss-inducing screams, the tail-end of ‘Dissociation’ will get you weeping. Much like the transcendent mouthpiece Patton has long been, Puciato builds on something familiar and reinvents it here.įor all Dillinger’s absurdities – Low Feels Blvd has a section that sounds like Mr. Surrogate possesses a heartfelt, heinous drawl that’s evocative of his predecessor but never derivative. Bungle-esque, jazzy interludes are parried by the pounding of Bill Rymer’s bass drum during the intro: do you clap your hands or prepare to flail around to ever-fluctuating time signatures? Sick On Sunday, from ‘Ire Works’, is recalled on Fugue thanks to its glistening electronics, but much of ‘Dissociation’ feels like Dillinger bottling their essence and spraying it onto the flames generated by their scorched musical contemporaries.įaith No More frontman and one-time Dillinger vocalist Mike Patton is a presence in Puciato’s croons, but the vocalist isn’t aping him. Puciato and Weinman’s work with members of Mastodon in Killer Be Killed and Giraffe Tongue Orchestra respectively may go some way to explaining Symptom Of Terminal Illness’ progressive ‘Crack The Skye’-homage post-chorus, but it is still trampled on with a distinctly Dillinger-shaped footprint.Įven Honey Suckle isn’t something you could call ‘standard’ Dillinger. There are groove-oriented ‘Miss Machine’ callbacks during the final throes of Wanting Not So Much To As To and Manufacturing Discontent, meanwhile, that almost serve to admonish bands who’ve made careers out of a similar approach: “There you go, Lamb Of God. Limerent Death, a sickening, lovelorn ode, kicks the LP off with that ‘One Of Us Is The Killer’ sludge and a dose of mathcore lunacy.īen Weinman’s choppy riffs are inescapable and Greg Puciato’s seething, unhinged delivery of the line “I gave you everything you wanted, you were everything to me” escalates with such rancour you do wonder if, by the end of it, he’s got any veins left in his neck. With ‘Dissociation’, the Dillinger Escape Plan still endeavour to use your ribcage as an accordion, but the pressure is exerted in a multitude of ways. ‘One Of Us Is The Killer’, their last LP, was a tad predictable compared to their previous output but even that, when viewed as part of a discography as wild as a knifeman on a broken rollercoaster, was unpredictable in itself. In terms of full-lengths, hindsight tells us that the band have never delivered less than a 9/10 in a recording career that spans 17 years. ![]() There’s nothing we can do about it, but at least they’ve administered ‘Dissociation’ to numb the pain. The Dillinger Escape Plan will break up after this album cycle and that sucks.
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