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Pendulum's album In Silico seemed amazing at first, but as the novelty wore off, it seems like the album is unfinished, and raw. The whole aspect behind Hold Your Colour was that every aspect of each song was in some way related to DnB, but somehow new and interesting. In Silico does draw from the same sources of emotion, it seems, but leaves the feelings less explored and void of detail. Take for instance, the large introduction of Slam giving you the huge jolt of energy straight into the drive behind the rest of the album, whereas Showdown has a lower driving force and basically does not drive the listener into the same mental state that it seems Pendulum was more than capable of doing. Showdown even has what seems like simple timing issues when returning from the interesting tripleted section. Even Calyx's recent album Anatomy includes there driving opener The Divide which is much more entertaining.

The positives to the album are in Granite which happens to be my most listened to track. …