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Smile UK Store - In Silico
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List Price: £10.99
Our Price: £6.98
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Manufacturer: Wea
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0825646956616
Label: Wea
Manufacturer: Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Wea
Release Date: 2008-05-12
Studio: Wea
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Editorial Reviews:
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In Silico might be the second album from Pendulum, but it's their first as a fully-fledged rock band. Of course, this Australian dance collective have paddled in these waters before: their debut album Hold Your Colour was a muscular collection of hard drum'n'bass and slamming breakbeats that, for all its synthetic construction, displayed firmly rock sensibilities. On In Silico, though, hard-riffing guitars are pulled right up in the mix, and the band's production core, Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen, lead from the front, reaching for the microphone and making clattering loops the bedrock for a suite of anthemic rockers. Comparisons to the likes of Enter Shikari and The Prodigy are not too wide of the mark, capturing something of Pendulum's fairground waltzer adrenaline and polished, metallic aggression. Beyond straightforward rush, though, some interesting ingredients find their way into the brew: storming opener "Slowdown" imagines an unholy synthesis of DJ Hype and Muse in full progressive rock-out mode, while the elegiac "Propane Nightmares" commences with a Mariachi trumpet serenade. Dance connoisseurs will probably complain Pendulum's beats lack a certain finesse, but if you like your dance music a) fast and b) hard then In Silico has all bases covered. --Louis Pattison
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Customer Rating:
Summary: in silico
Comment: My first impressions were good, as pendulum introduced me into d`n b. But after much listening and reading outher reviews I have come to notice that this album is just there to get them into the charts, regardless of true brum and bass.
Pendulum have fused together a load of power chourds and a live drummer to what could potentally been a d`n b track.
So in all; this is just really bassy rock music, (and I hate rock).
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Summary: An album that will be quickly forgotten
Comment: I must say that I agree entirely with the review by Mr H Pearce, entitled "A change of direction", and cited as the "most helpful critical review" - he has hit the nail on the head.
I too was a big fan of Hold Your Colour as a superb cross-over album, with just the right amount of grittiness to make substantial rock and DnB references, without making both completely homogonised and bland. Alas, in Silico homogonises pretty hard, and the result is an album that sounds as though it were expressly composed for the lastest Hollywood blockbuster soundtrack.
As per Mr Pearce's insightful review, it will doubtless have a few feet tapping when it comes on that bit later in some of the bars, but this album will be forgotten long before Hold Your Colour. No stand out classics here, in an effort to appeal to absolutley everyone. Bit of a shame.
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Summary: Had to listen to a few songs twice but....
Comment: Its a great album! I must admit they do seem to have changed their sound since hold your colour, however im an indie/rock/bassline guy, and pendulum seem to have mixed these genres plus sum drum n bass, tho i must also admit that they seem to have moved slightly away from drum n bass, but each song is unique, my fav's being 'different', 'the other side', 'mutiny', and 'the tempest', where 'the tempest' and 'the other side' are more heavy than most of the other tunes.
Overall id say 9/10, took a cuple of goes before liking the album but very hard for me to put the album down!
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Summary: makes a change
Comment: this cd was brought in by one of my 16-year-old's friends. It is the first bit of music that any of this group of metalheads have played that I have enjoyed. I will go further. I love it - I usually like clubby stuff, trance (loads of different Euphoria in my collection) so this is a bit different for me. Anyway this old lady likes pendulum, you too may find that it makes it easier to live in a house full of male teenagers.
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Summary: True corssover album
Comment: Well the D&B hardcore fans and the, most probably, beat junky chavs that hate this album can whine ans bawww all they like, but the fact remains that drum and bass is not, and never was, an art form. Until now. The introduction of more electronica influence and even some unexpected fusions of hard, progressive, rock/metal and the obvious addition of the vocals (which I have heard criticised as 'not fitting' in one review, how very dare you!)have transformed this album into something truly special.
I'm not a huge fan of 'hold your colour' mainly because of the people I knew who liked it and how it always seem to be the same track blaring out of peoples phones. (I've had had another look at the album and have decided that it has more merit than the generic DnB I thought it was)but upon hearing 'In Silico' my attitude of pendulum has completely shifted
This album truly transcends genres with Pendulum adding Spades more welcome electronica, rock, funk, progressive and a host of other styles whilst keeping that underlying D&B energy that their previous release consisted of. This is a HUGE leap forward,not only making them more listenable to those not in the cap wearing demographic but lifts it to a whole other realm of musical prowess.
Im a huge fan of things like The Prodigy, he chemical brothers, tool etc. and you can really hear some of each of these (weather intentionally or not) so i guess I bias towards their new direction but tracks like 'Different' with is slightly more house feel, Show down with its heavy vocals and my personally favourite 'The Tempest' with its progressive overtones. none of this compromises the power of pendulum, this album is relentless in its power without being to abrasive, indeed the whole thing goes down pretty smoothly. although ~I think they could have developed it even more away from their last recording I suppose you have to go in increments as not to confuse your fan-base.
In summary, if you want some mindless drum and base go else-ware and don't whine about it. if you want an album you can listen to in nearly every situation that crosses boundaries and stirs things up, by all means treat yourself and purchase this album.
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