The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis
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pourradass
February 2nd 2023


620 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Either way this and Killer are both better than Miss Machine and Dissociation

Ectier
February 2nd 2023


2736 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I think this album is just the full dillinger experience. It has every aspect of the band rolled into one album. Its more concentrated and refined than Miss Machine, less Poppy than Ire works (great album gets too much hate). I have to give Killer more time and spins myself but its also great. Dissociation was the swan song more a revisit of a lot of ideas and past sounds.

CalculatingInfinity
February 2nd 2023


9870 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

The main thing this album has for me over the other Dillinger albums is that it has their best closer. So unique in their discog and is such a blissful (for their standards) way to end the album which grabbed you by the neck for the whole duration with how intense it is.

Mort.
February 2nd 2023


25594 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

actually quite surprised you only have your namesake 5d calc

Demon of the Fall
February 2nd 2023


34386 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I dropped my CI 5 and am hoping to replace it with this one day soon...

From a pure enjoyment level this is tops now, regardless of whatever influence / lasting longevity CI has provided me.

CalculatingInfinity
February 2nd 2023


9870 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

@Mort: I don't rate or update ratings since 2018, too stressful.



Nowadays, my ranking is: Miss Machine>OP=Killer=Ire>Calc=Running Board=Irony Is a Dead Scene>>>>>>>>>>>>Dissociation. Everything slaps other than Dissociation.

Mort.
February 2nd 2023


25594 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

lol we have the exact same top and bottom rankings.



mine is probably something like



miss machine>calc>option paralysis>ire>killer>dissociation



i dont know where the eps etc would fit into that





Flugmorph
February 2nd 2023


34557 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

damn we got dissociation slander in this day and age

Demon of the Fall
February 2nd 2023


34386 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

hmm, currently thinking...

OP > CI > MM / IW (leaning MM these days) >>>> Diss > Killer

Zac124
February 2nd 2023


2811 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Dissociation slander is no good. Honestly, I think all of their albums are great and all are around the same level of quality. Still have favourites though. Killer will never be topped.

Flugmorph
February 2nd 2023


34557 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

yeah agreed with that take, they're all fantastic records, i just have a deeper connection to killer than any other of their releases.

CalculatingInfinity
February 2nd 2023


9870 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

They're all fantastic records, I just fucking hate Dissociation's production and I have other personal quibbles.

Mort.
February 2nd 2023


25594 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

yeah i agree withg calc, dissociation's production isnt great. always felt that album lacks a certain bite. always found it pretty underwhelming (but it still has some bangers)

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
February 2nd 2023


60907 Comments

Album Rating: 4.7

yup yup, Dissociation is miles overproduced and half the angsty melodic songs are colossal bunk. weird that an album otherwise so painstakingly true to everything that was always great about this band manages to swerve so far off-piste

midsection of Low Feels Blvd is probably the only (good) part of the album that benefitted from this



and the noirish break in Paranoid Shields could be replaced from a load of moments here (Widower, I Wouldn't, even Mona Lisa) and never thought of again; least interesting part of the song. Killer does have some exceptional bangers, but the songwriting lacks the spread or ambition of this one and largely stales up by the second half (+ the catchy/melodic trax are far weaker with the exception of Paranoia Shields)

CalculatingInfinity
February 2nd 2023


9870 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Without the noirish break it would have made the eventual build to insanity less satifying plus 2/3 of those 'replacements' use piano and wouldn't have suited the vibe of the song at all. Dat horn is great. The second half I like as much as the first but that instrumental is...pointless.

Wildcardbitchesss
February 2nd 2023


12392 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Saying dissociation is whack is whack

AlexKzillion
February 2nd 2023


17447 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

dissociation is perfect but this is better

DavidYowi
February 2nd 2023


3512 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I actually think Dissociation has one of the better production jobs in TDEP’s discog. Those drums sound massive

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
February 22nd 2023


60907 Comments

Album Rating: 4.7

is this still a 5 LET'S FUCKING GO

Spec
February 22nd 2023


39659 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

hmm let’s see



Edit: nope



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