There is not much that can be said here, so this might be a pretty short write up. The Dillinger Escape Plan simply is one of the best live bands going right now. By far the most energetic and you don't know what to expect every time you see them live. The new album, 'One Of Us Is The Killer', like all their other albums, has again turned my mindset into mush but still manages to heal it through its amazing ability to craft spastic and punishing music with some of the most amazing pop moments that ignorant pop music fans of today will NEVER hear.
Songs like 'Prancer' and 'When I Lost My Bet' are your typical spastic, stomach twisting, neck breaking, flip out, demented moments that showcases vintage Dillinger, however the disjointed metal denting punches appear to have more raw bite and viciousness since 'Calculating Infinity'. Gotta love the heavy swing in them also. And those clean breaks that are like ants scattering madly all over the place after some little kid kicked their kingdom down and drowned it in red cordial.
But again, the mainstream songs like 'One Of Us Is The Killer', 'Nothings Funny' and 'Paranoid Shields' stand out most for me. Extremely catchy, and that heavy as fuck buzzing riff in the title song. As always, lyrically and the way Greg hits his notes, it is just sheer power. Always a unique feel and passion in his delivery that just elevates him over most. To add further, after all the freak outs from the other songs, these more 'laid back' times are like when the band needs to rest from all the acrobatics. But it works every single time.
Not much more can be said. The format for a Dillinger album has become somewhat predictable, but the key here is that they do this perfect EVERY time. No other band can pull off this technical precision and also be able to pull off songs that in a perfect world, should be giving pop charts a reality check. Killer album, again!
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