IRONY IS A DEAD SCENE

'Irony Is a Dead Scene' is the result of the collaboration between The Dillinger Escape Plan and Mike Patton, offering this 2002 EP as a stop-gap release between the band's first and second studio albums. This one ranks among the best offerings of DEP, with Mike Patton bringing out the avant-garde side of the mathcore band, all while contributing by adding layers of absurdity and surrealism to the otherwise impenetrable heavy music of Dillinger. Preserving their manic and aggressive tendencies, the addition of Patton is rather brilliant as his voice fits the uncanny qualities of the dynamic music in an unimaginably satisfying way.

The sole criticism one might have of this EP is that it is too short with its eighteen minutes of playtime, since this collaboration never grew to produce a full-length album (as the band had already been touring with then-new vocalist Greg Puciato). Nevertheless, this four-track mini-album remains one of the exhaustively crazy and cerebrally experimental pieces of music to have ever come out of this group of musicians - just listen to the blabbering of Patton on opening track 'Hollywood Squares', a song that preserves the intensity of the band's first album, or the ridiculous delivery on 'Pig Latin' as well as the multiple absurd grunting sounds produced by the man handling the vocals. The 6-minute-long 'When Good Dogs Do Bad Things' is the most complex and adventurous piece on this EP, which closes off with a cover of Aphex Twin's 'Come to Daddy', a worthy finale of an otherwise comical and chaotic work of art.

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