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In Silico | 
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| Artist: Pendulum
Label: Wea
Category: Music
List Price: £10.99
Buy New: £4.16
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Rating:  62 reviews
Sales Rank: 120
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 511089
UPC: 825646956616
EAN: 0825646956616
ASIN: B00151G08Y
Release Date: May 12, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
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| Tracks:
| • | Showdown | | • | Different | | • | Propane Nightmares | | • | Visions | | • | Midnight Runner | | • | The Other Side | | • | Mutiny | | • | 9,000 Miles | | • | Granite | | • | The Tempest |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
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 Reviews: Read 57 more reviews...
 New fan for this genre! November 24, 2008
P. Evans (Cheshire,UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Let me start by saying that I have never been a fan of any form of dance music: in any way whatsoever!
I saw these guys perform Granite live on Jools Holland, and they blew me away though. I genuinely believed them to be a guitar driven rock band: so to discover that they are D&B is quite a suprise.
That said, I bought this album to find out how good their other stuff was, and it did not disappoint! Thunderous guitar riffs fused with heavy electronica, and synth fed voices create a wall of sound against a backdrop of Metallica style drums.
I invested in their first album "Hold Your Colour" too: and even though this is very much a D&B album, you can clearly discern the direction that their music is going in.
Stand out tracks for me on "In Silico" are:- Granite,Midnight Runner and Visions. The first single "Propane Nightmares" is worth a listen too.
In what? who cares November 21, 2008
James Rogers (Britain)
Not a pendulum fan? neither was i really, but i decided to buy the album because i'd never listened to there music properly. depending on the mood, this is why 4 not 5 stars, all the songs in this great album will get you moving some part of your body to. recommended!
Jimborogers
 Not the "crossover" everyone makes it out to be November 3, 2008
E. Burrowes (Surrey, England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Firstly, maybe I should explain where I'm coming from in writing this review. I'm a true junglist and an avid Pendulum fan, I have been since I first heard "Spiral" all those years ago. I watched them make 2 years of great records before they finally dropped "Hold Your Colour" in our laps. Needless to say it was sensational. I love every single track on that album and it remains today one of my all-time favourites. So when I caught word of a new Pendulum LP in the making, I immediately had high hopes for another DnB stormer.
By the time I reached "The Tempest" I was almost in tears. It was, to me, like finding out a band I loved had split up. Pendulum are dead. This album is just an awful attempt, by a band I don't even know anymore, at blending 2 or 3 different genres together into ten tracks of failure. I'm listening to "9000 Miles" and trying to describe the dismal hybrid-wannabe drivel resonating from my speakers right now is.. well, it's indescribable. Writing this is reminding me of the loss of one of my favourite artists all over again, it hurts! :(
Backing up my criticism a little; the vocals are WAY too FX-heavy. Generally this is used to overcompensate for talentless vocalists - yes, I am suggesting something here. Also, this album is regularly used by wannabe DnB fans who are trying to "me too" their way into a music scene they perceive to be cool. This ISN'T DnB. Not by a long stretch. This is a mediocre rock/electronica mix with a breakbeat rhythm. That's also one of the reasons I felt the need to write a critical review. The amount of people putting this rubbish under the DnB umbrella is really starting to annoy me.
Why have I given it two stars when I hate it so much? Simply because I believe that all music has intrinsic value. I don't think any song can simply be labelled "bad" because someone, somewhere will like it and to them it isn't "bad" at all. The fact of the matter is that the pop/chart-loving crowd will lap this up. And if you accept it for what it is, it becomes an average-fare pop album. It's just that I'm having a hard time accepting this for what it is because I expected so much more from the guys that brought me the best album of 2005. People who have only ever heard of Pendulum through "In Silico" or just love mainstream trash may make something of this album, it just doesn't float my boat, thank you very much.
The Cheesiest Dance/Rock Album... Ever! October 13, 2008
Man Without a Soul (London)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The same Big Beat drumming over the course of all 10 tracks...check.
Vocals taken from the Cher 'I Believe' hall of shame...check.
Lyrics that make 'Firestarter' sound like a deep statement...check.
Sound effects from the Scooter pro tools set...check.
...and we are ready to roll! Prepare to unleash hell!!
The thing is - occasionally we all like to inflict a little pain on ourselves and I can't believe I'm saying this... 'In Silico' can be quite a fun listen sometimes.
Just sometimes mind...
The Worlds Finest September 10, 2008
W. Morris (Bucks, UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Im not a massive fan of drum n bass and dont think i ever will be but 'In Silico' has certainly drawn me in and made me think twice. I constantly listened to Radio 1 talking about how great Pendulum were so i thought i had to listen for myself and see if they were all they were cracked up to be!!
They certainly didnt disappoint!
I only brought this album at the weekend and it has been playing on my car radio ever since. 'Propane Nightmares' is probably the stand out track on the album and the most recognisable to any non-pendulum fan but 'The Other Side', '9,000 Miles' & 'Granite' are other faviroutes.
A must buy for anyone!
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