Album Rating: 5.0

Unretrofied has such an amazing chorus.

Album Rating: 4.5

for real. It’s amazing how good Greg is at writing hooks given how batshit they normally are.



It’s honestly just amazing how Greg could even figure out how to do vocals over some of these instrumentals.

Album Rating: 5.0

This is by far the best Dillinger

Album Rating: 4.5

That's...a take.

Album Rating: 5.0

It’s lightning in a bottle, captures what’s best about the CI era, the Patton experiment, and streamlined it into a totally unique sound that they kept more or less replicating for the rest of their career. There was a time that’s I would have put CI above it but 20 years later I don’t think it carries the same impact

Album Rating: 4.5

Fair, pretty much any album they did is a good candidate for a favorite. This one doesn't settle as well for me since I think it's a growing pains album. Not as intense and biting as CI but without the refined sleek stylings of what's to come.

Album Rating: 5.0

I love that it’s not quite as streamlined as the future albums, it feels like it came together very organically and genuinely surprises you when a hook or a groove drops out of the chaos. As time went on I found the formula a little bit too planned, and preferred the songs where they stray from it (eg Dead as History or Mouth of Ghosts on Ire Works)

Album Rating: 4.5

If Greg’s vocals were better here I’d probably agree. He just improved so much after this record. I really think he’s one of the best vocalists working. He was incredible on Dissociation.

"where does sleeping giants locate on that spectrum?"
Just south of Gold Teeth, love that song so much

Album Rating: 4.0

Dissociation felt like it didn’t really have an overall identity, just a mish-mash of ideas without clear coherence. Admittedly I might be about to rip up my tDEP rulebook and wipe all my previous opinions, so who knows?

Hmm I thought Dissociation was pretty cohesive but, if anything, a little too slick for its own good

Album Rating: 4.0

I don’t know, the individual cuts were slick but it was like a summary of their career, which meant I didn’t get any sense of it being an album, just a collection of songs. Maybe I was just too used to them ripping up the rulebook on the regular. I guess ‘Low Feels’ was a bit different.

Album Rating: 4.0

This album will always remind me of WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2006. Because of Unretrofied obvs

Album Rating: 4.5

I kinda agree that it just feels like a collection of songs instead of a coherent album but all the songs are so damn good that it didn’t really bother me.



Limerent Death, Low Feels Blvd, Surrogate, Honeysuckle, Nothing to Forget, and the title track are all up there with their best material.

Album Rating: 4.0

Low Feels is peak Dillinger

Album Rating: 5.0

Dissociation was a strong return to form but definitely feels more like a career retrospective than a coherent standalone album. Low Feels is probably a top 5 Dillinger track though

Album Rating: 5.0

Low Feels is one of their best tracks, yeah.

Album Rating: 4.5

Great album. Glad I gave these guys a shot.

Album Rating: 4.5

Turns 15 today

Album Rating: 5.0

God I’m old