★★★★★
The quick and dirty intro to this album "Genesis" is an impressive little orchestral piece, acoustic, with some synth added to enrich the sound. It lasts only long enough to suggest something magic is going to happen, and then we're plunged right into the double your daily intake of caffeine, bass heavy raver groove "Salt in the Wounds"...
- www.musicvice.com
2011-01-18
★★★★★
Over the years, a plethora of artists have set out to create a fusion of dance and rock music with varying results, and Australia's Pendulum certainly sit near the top of the pack. Having started life as drum 'n' bass DJs, the unit increasingly incorporated live instruments in their shows and recordings, and with 2008's In Silico they delivered an album that was a beat-driven, riff-laden rush of adrenaline from start to finish...
- www.altpress.com
2011-01-17
★★★★★
Sound: Festival-ravers Pendulum have always been a band that have divided opinion amongst music fans. They seem to have broken away from their 'Drum and Bass' roots throughout the last few years and have become experimental and somewhat genre-straddling...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
A mash of drum 'n' bass and rock, the band leapt onto the radar last year when breakout hit 'Slam' took alternative and mainstream clubs by storm, and it wasn't long before they were drawing decent crowds at the summer's festivals. The CD/DVD combo is an impressively immersing record of their gig at Brixton Academy on their 'In Silico' tour last year...
- www.music-news.com
2010-11-02
★★★★★
First clue that this was going to be some kind of ADD dance disc was seeing that Prodigy keyboardist Liam Howlett was guesting (on the industrially directed Immunize, probably the album's best track). Immersion is the third disc from U.K.-based six-piece Pendulum, whose stock in trade is hypertension-inducing d'n'b overlaid with grandiose synth leads, overproduced rock guitar and lead vocals that call to mind an emasculated Chad Kroeger (Nickelback)...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
And so it begins. A mournful horn and an elfin tinkle give way to a martial, string-stabbed intro of Danny Elfman, nay, John Williams-level portentousness. These beats, it promises, are going to be planetary in scope. Space-time-fabric-warping in the massiveness of their farcicality. And from the second the utterly redonkulous throb, swagger and cat-and-mouse build-and-drop of the strutting 'Genesis' kicks in, our hopes are totally fulfilled...
- nme.com
2010-05-27
★★★★★
While it's true that critics (hello!) cry out for artists to exhibit evolution from album to album, every now and again a record's so bad that stagnation would have been preferred. Pendulum's second effort, 2008's In Silico, was such a beast. An unfocused (not necessarily miscalculated) collision of dance and rock constituents, it sought to expand the tumultuous drum'n'bass template of 2005's Hold Your Colour...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2010-05-27
★★★★★
Feted though it was, 2005's Hold Your Colour (225,000 copies sold and counting) doesn't rate so well when compared to the progressions made in the drum and bass world since its release; it's crisply realised, sure, but low on grime, on the grit necessary to snag demanding attentions too accustomed to high-BPM passages peppering their Xbox game menu screens...
- drownedinsound.com
2010-02-12
★★★★★
Sound: Every so often, you will purchase an album that will strike you as truly remarkable. This is exactly how I feel about this album. The Australian drum 'n' bass outfit have seemingly come from nowhere to do to me exactly what the Prodigy's 'Experience' album did to me all those years ago; throw me face first into a relatively underground music scene, opening my eyes to a whole new range of sound and energy that I needed to discover...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
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