I bum Pendulum’s “Immersion EP”

A lot of folk didn’t seem too pleased when Pendulum brought out “In Silico”. It was apparently the wrong direction or at least a step in the wrong one. Outrage is easily spotted on places like Youtube, users up in arms at material with guitars in, folk knocking their mothers out after they tell them “that’s better son, a bit of guitar”.

New album artwork, nice.

Personally, I bloody loved it. It was something I could listen to again & again and not grow bored of. “Propane Nightmares” got labelled the worst Pendulum track ever. I have a feeling that the label will be thrown at one or two tracks on “Immersion” but still, the smell of folk who want a group to produce the same thing every album was a bit overpowering. I had to therefore blast out “The Other Side” to block them out, in theory.

Immersion is an EP where again they head to grungy plains but also finger the electronic pie so hard it pleases the hardcore. “The Island” is the most intriguing track for me, two parts to it, one very electro, weighs in at 126bpm! Second part arrives and good lord my ears were covered in what I usually cover pictures of Jasmine from Emmerdale in. “Genesis” is a nice introduction to the EP, whilst “Encoder” is an astounding mixture of both 80′s synth & plucks, and modern ambience & percussion. Fucking love it. The more action-packed tracks such as “Salt In The Wounds” and “Witchcraft” make me want to neck cans of lager in the house then head out, aimlessly. “Watercolour”, the first single, does the trick and I also have the deepest feelings for “Set Me On Fire”, the Tune To Mong Out To of 2010 so far.

As a very good man said to me today, it’s like a bonus disc for “In Silico” and caters for all my Wipeout HD custom-soundtrack moments, the pre-nights out, the mental charging for a day ahead. The best reason to physically buy a CD album in a long time. Now excuse my bad bad self whilst I carry out some extreme romance for 67 minutes.