The Dillinger Escape Plan

Editor's Review:

It's a safe bet to assume that pretty much anything Mike Patton is involved with will be at least slightly chaotic. The Dillinger Escape Plan, part of New York's avant-punk movement, is a wild band with an affinity for oddly timed and brutal rhythms combined with chaotic melody and cacophonous harmonizing. Together, these two components create a big, explosive four-song E.P., thick with passages of sonic mayhem lead by Patton's at times incoherent chirping and screaming. But groove is not something that eludes this group. Amid the seemingly incongruent barrages of yelping vocals, grinding guitars and pounding drums are interludes of driving, fuzz-drenched, riff-oriented structure. So while it might be loud and chaotic, it's not by any means deconstructionist, and if avant-rock is your thing, then this is your thing.
- Max Sidman

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Record Label Epitaph Records Released August 2002

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