Ire Works

3/5

Ire Works

The Dillinger Escape Plan

Genre: Metal

  1. gives it a: 4/5

    I suppose I understand the dissent, but Ire Works is my runaway favorite DEP record. They finally understood that being the craziest band on the planet did not at all mean trying to be the craziest band on the planet.
    While Calculating Infinity and the EP with Mike Patton were watershed creative moments in heavy music, Ire Works is something else entirely. It’s jazzy, poppy, fun, and yet brutally heavy – it’s like a masterclass-turned-kegger from the coolest professor in the music school. I hear records like this and think “Man, if we lived in a society where we were socialized to challenge and stimulate ourselves aesthetically like in the old world, there could be such cool conversations around records like this.” This is pop music for savants, stalwarts, and agents of chaos.

  2. gives it a: 2/5

    Short Review: This album was akin to growing up with Indiana Jones and getting excited about The Crystal Skull, only to see said film and pull a “face palm”. I do agree that they’re a step ahead of the pack but, this record sort of made me shrug.

  3. gives it a: 3/5

    Ire Works was disappointing, but DEP is still years ahead of so many other bands.