Miss Machine

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Miss Machine
Miss Machine cover
Studio album by Dillinger Escape Plan
Released July 20, 2004
Recorded 2004
Genre Mathcore
Length 39:54
Label Relapse
Producer(s) Steve Evetts, Benjamin Weinman, Chris Pennie
Professional reviews
Dillinger Escape Plan chronology
Irony Is a Dead Scene
(2002)		 Miss Machine
(2004)		 Plagiarism
(2006)


Miss Machine is an album by The Dillinger Escape Plan, released on July 20, 2004 (see 2004 in music). The band's music is difficult to classify, but it is closest to mathcore, while also incorporating elements of other genres, such as jazz and progressive rock. To date, the band has released three singles from this album, all with videos: "Panasonic Youth", "Setting Fire to Sleeping Giants", and "Unretrofied".

Miss Machine was released in three editions: LP, CD, and CD plus bonus DVD. The bonus DVD includes footage from a handful of the band's live performances.

Miss Machine is the band's first full-length album since Calculating Infinity and a chain of events that shook up the band -- the car accident prior to the recording of Calculating Infinity that left original bassist Adam Doll paralyzed, the departure of original vocalist Dimitri Minakakis, recording an EP (Irony Is a Dead Scene) with Mike Patton, and the addition of replacement vocalist Greg Puciato to the band.

Of the track "Sunshine the Werewolf", Puciato said in a 2005 interview with Lambgoat:

Sunshine The Werewolf was originally about an article I read about people called "Gift Givers" and "Bug Catchers," people who try to give or catch AIDS deliberately. I changed it a little bit to make it more abstract so that it can be related to as a relationship song too, but it originally started as that. It works on both levels.

Miss Machine is probably the band's most mainstream-friendly release to date, as the band draws from the experience of working with Mike Patton and the industrial influence of Greg Puciato's other project, Error.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Panasonic Youth" (Weinman/Puciato) – 2:27
  2. "Sunshine the Werewolf" (Weinman/Puciato) – 4:17
  3. "Highway Robbery" (Weinman/Puciato) – 3:30
  4. "Van Damsel" (Weinman/Puciato) – 2:59
  5. "Phone Home" (Pennie/Puciato) – 4:15
  6. "We Are the Storm" (Weinman/Puciato) – 4:38
  7. "Crutch Field Tongs" (Pennie) – 0:52
  8. "Setting Fire to Sleeping Giants" (Weinman/Puciato) – 3:27
  9. "Baby's First Coffin" (Weinman/Puciato) – 4:02
  10. "Unretrofied" (Weinman) – 5:37
  11. "The Perfect Design" (Weinman/Puciato) – 3:50

[edit] Notes

"Panasonic Youth" was featured in Konami's GuitarFreaks V and Drummania V

"Unretrofied" was used for WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2006 video game as a soundtrack.

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Chart positions

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year Chart Position
2004 The Billboard 200 106
2004 Top Heatseekers 2
2004 Top Independent Albums 4
2004 Top Internet Albums 106
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