Track Listing

1. Showdown
2. Different
3. Propane Nightmares
4. Visions
5. Midnight Runner
6. The Other Side
7. Mutiny
8. 9,000 Miles
9. Granite
10. The Tempest

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #236 in Music
• Released on: 2008-05-12
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

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

CD Description
'In Silicio' is the second album from Australian drum and bass outfit Pendulum. Best known for their heavy beats and menacing basslines, the follow up to 2007's debut 'Hold Your Colour' is a much bolder album, mixing various styles together, from rock to electronica resulting in a melodic and exhilarating record. Includes the single 'Propane Nightmares'.

Customer Reviews

Top notch cross-over album
Let me start this review by stating I am a metalhead, my cd collection consists mostly of hardcore metal bands and I am not into dance music but this album has blown me away.
Pendulums new direction my upset a few old skool fans as this album has a lot more rocker feel and it has this cross-over sound showcasing many influences that I think sets them appart from most bands. The heavy beats Pendulum are famous for are still there, but they also dabble in snarling guitars, electronica and emo influences.
Think prodigy without the punk edge and you will not be far off.
This album is a brave step but in my view it has paid off in a big way.
Pendulum are the cross-over kings!

A Change Of Direction
With the opinion that Hold Your Colour was one of the best produced and genre moulding drum and bass albums to reach our ears to date, In Silico reached mine with high expectations.

The most immediately noticeable difference is the change in direction of the pendulum sound. Gone are the crunching basslines, the darker side to some of the tracks on hold your colour. There are no more drum and bass tracks, this album is much more about an almagamation of guitar-cum-electronics, with the drum and bass component taking much more of a subtle undertone. Most tracks feature vocalists and have gone for a more singalong pop feel making some tunes such as the opener 'Showdown' and 'Propane Nightmares' more easily accessible, but ultimately throw-away songs.

It is also a disappointment to see Pendulum producing tracks that are merely iterations of Slam, or variations of a drum loop used previously before. Diversity still occurs on In Silico but not as involved as their debut.

That said there are still some solid sounds that will have you tapping your foot, a building grin to the crescendo of a bassline erupting into a cacophony of digital beats only Pendulum know how to do, and their sound for which they were originally recognised for is retained in parts, most noticably on 'Visions' and "Midnight Runner'.

All in all a bit of a disappointment, reminiscent of the path the Prodigy took between Music for the Gilted and Fat of the Land. Keeping their roots in part to produce what is essentially a good album but appealing to a wider audience and losing a part of what made them to begin with. Best described as a blend of drum and bass, anthem-rock, electronica and pop. Probably better live.

New fan for this genre!
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.