Style: Technical hardcore punk, mathcore
Primary Emotions/Themes: You're guess is as good as mine
Thoughts: I don't think I can think of a more natural pairing than Dillinger with Patton. The Dillinger Escape plan creates some of the most technical and insane music this side of the asteroid belt. Mike Patton is one of the most versatile and unhinged vocalists in all of current music.
On Irony is a Dead Scene, Dillinger engage with their crazy antics, stupidly fast changes in time signatures, stop start riffing, stop start melodies, stop start concepts... stop start everything. This insanity is paired with Mike Patton's... unique... vocals. The two of them are a match made in heaven... hell? Who the hell knows but this is such a natural fit that I think it's one of the better entries into the Dillinger discography.
Throughout these 16 minutes there has to be at least 40-50 riffs. There is so much going on at any given time that I can't even begin to summarize it in detail. One moment the band will be playing a completely incomprehensible riff - stop - then play an acoustic laden interlude then - stop - and continue right where they left off.
Mike's voice follows along with zero effort. He will sing quietly only to burst out of no where with a gut wrenching scream then follow that up with some scatting. Seriously this guy is all over the place, a few standard deviations from the mean... a man amongst giants... or was that the other way around? I don't know anymore... I'm confused.
This EP could probably have fit on one side of the LP and been fine, but it's spread over both sides at 45 RPM which is just as well. The amount of stuff going on in here makes this sound way longer than it actually is if you're paying attention. Even now as I'm trying to take it all in to write this... thing... I don't even have words anymore.. my brain is fried. Go listen, make up your own damn mind.
Written February 1st 2024
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