Pendulum - In Silico (CD)

All Music Guide

What would happen in you crashed classic club rhythms into classic rock? Pendulum pick up the pieces on their sophomore album, but American debut, In Silico. It's a "Showdown" between late 60's hardrock and raging techno beats on the set opener, as the band blast the arena with their big, bold sound. "The Tempest", which bookends the set, is filled with ominous clouds, while a metal rain splatters the grooves. Throughout this set Pendulum swings across the rock spectrum. The stomping "Mutiny", for example, clashes glamrock with classic rock, think "Radar Love" played by the Glitter Band. That could be a single, "Granite" already has been, its dizzy mix of slamming techno beats, incendiary synths, fiery guitar licks, and spacerock effects shooting up the UK andAustralian dance charts. "Granite" has a New Romantic tincture, a style that also tinges "The Other Side"'s funky/hardrock hybrid and "Different", a number that blends jungle beats with psychedelia and progrock. The latter's rhyth...m is ripped straight out of Prodigy's hands, as is the one that supports "9000 Miles", where the band board the Caravan and travel from the Canterbury scene to the chill room. Prodigy aren't their only obvious influence, Moby gets his due too, as Pendulum tip their hats to his take on the "James Bond Theme" with the pomprocky "Propane Nightmares", another sizzling single. Yet it's the far more subtle "Visions" that's the band's epiphany, where they weave together a sewing box worth of threads from the '70s electronica scene into a sunny Read more Less