Customer Reviews
Brilliant Album - Drum n Bass Infused Rock - By: D. Galt, 18 Jul 2008 
This album is fantastic. no song is bad. pendulum have changed direction & it works a treat. the drum n bass is still there but not as much, however the new rock in it is BRILLIANT. The vocals are decent, but its the riffs & the drums which make it. the drops & bass lines are tremendous, & the album is so full of energy. The best songs are:
Showdown - The best song on the album. Big drums in the background power the song & an immense bass line on top of it. a break in the middle, & in insane drop leads it back in. the guitar work is also amazing. 10/10
Propane Nightmares - 10/10. One of the best made by them. Strong drums & a quality bass line, with good vocals too. The ending makes the song though, a reallly powerful & slower version of the main riff, it sounds awesome.
Mutiny - A mixture of influences here, but it starts off quite dnb & it sounds great. However half way through it stops, & a great bass riff kicks in, powering alll the way through. it just makes you want to go nuts.
Granite - Could easily be on HYC. great drums & in insane synth line packed with energy.
The Tempest - The last song. starts quite relaxed & chilled out. however half way through a huge riff kicks in, providing a reallly big ending to a great album.
BUY IT!
Not much of a special edition - By: WillyP, 13 Jul 2008 
Pretty disapointed in this. Great album but on the spcial part; the 2 vidios, Granite & Propane Nightmares, are both in not very good sound & video quality(seriously the ones on Youtube sound better). Plus they didn't bother with makeing info tags for the 2 remixs of Propane Nightmares. Still, the album is nice so gets a 4, original one gets a 5; but don't think this special edition was worth the extra pounds.
slammed - By: kernowsam, 10 Jul 2008 
I recently came back from overseas & when my sister, normallly an indie fan, told me how good the new Pendulum release was I joked that it meant the end of them. Having now bought in silico & listened through myself, I may not have been far off the mark. The truth is that technicallly this isn't a bad album. The production is tight & some of the beats are immense, as you would expect from the outfit that bought us 'hold your colour'. However, compared to that release this is a pale effort. I'm not at alll averse to fusing rock elements with heavy baselines, other producers like Eat Static have managed this very successfully, it's the banaal, dulcid lyrics littering this album which infuriate me. Pendulum have always been cheesy by drum & bass standards, but we kind of loved them for it. However, this effort in Propane Nightmares, for example, is too far... "in a trail of fire I know we will be free again, in the end we will be one. In a trail of fire I will burn before you bury me, set your sights for the sun"...before breaking down into trademark Pendulum driving synths. What is that? It sounds like drivel one of Simon Cowell's proteges would spout... an ugly chimera indeed. Those of us who spent happy nights stomping to Tarantula should perhaps pretend in silico never happened.
It seems like a conscious decision has been made to widen their appeal & enter the mass market. And good on them, they have succeeded. They are number 47 in Amazon's bestsellers list & I'm sure they're raking in the rewards. Of course, its every band's perogative to change direction & to develop their sound, but if you make a fundamental shift like this, you cannot be surprised if existing fans are a little disillusioned.
In 'hold your colour' pendulum mastered a sound, & have crafted some of the most brilliant remixes along the way, but for me their credibility is somewhat diminished in this album. Lets hope it's just a career blip. Pendulum should beware, cheap hits & MTV airtime do not buy longevity.
More rock, less of the important stuff. - By: Ms. Rr Bryant, 07 Jul 2008 The problem with the change from their old sound to In Silico's, is that they've left what remains of DnB in there. What you're left with is a collection of rock songs backed with some very basic (and as many have said, re-used) beats, preventing any track on here from breaching the standard of Hold your Colour.
The vocalist is another major problem, whilst he clearly has talent, he doesn't suit this band at alll. Listen to Granite, the intro is absolutely brilliant, then as soon as the vocalist comes in you're tempted to skip the track. He just sounds so incredably bored with the music himself that he's not even going to bother.
This is the problem, if they'd never realised Hold your Colour, In Silico would be far more welcomed. But you can't just jump to an album which puts more emphasis on the rock parts, & less on the bass. It's the bass & beats which are the most important parts of most songs, & here they've just been casuallly added. I'm not even much of a DnB fan, but this was just a poor transition.
So good it made my hair stand on end! - By: Mr. Malcolm Ian Barr, 06 Jul 2008 If you have heard Hold Your Colour you know what Pendulum are about - Drum & Bass meets Guitar based rock. On first listen this outting sounded to me like a noisier version of the first album. But once you give yourself a chance to get used to whats going on, this album shows these guys reallly hitting their straps. Less time spending demonstrating their ability to use the technology they are working with, more time just ripping into the stuff they have written. I finished listening to this for the third time, then went & ordered the special edition. Just buy it!
