Artist: THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN
Album: "MISS MACHINE LTD. EDIT. (CD+DVD DIGI)"

Year: 2004
Media type: CD

Miss Machine is the second album by American mathcore band The Dillinger Escape Plan, released in July 2004 by Relapse Records. It is Greg Puciato's first album as the lead vocalist for the band. Miss Machine marks a change to a more experimental style by the band. It is still considered Mathcore, but is less aggressive than Calculating Infinity, with the track Setting Fire to Sleeping Giants being sung traditionally by lead vocalist Puciato. The album is The Dillinger Escape Plan's first album since 1999, the gap between albums being accredited to a number of bad fortunes, and a short EP release with lead vocals being performed by Mike Patton. There were 3 music videos made for the album (Panasonic Youth, Unretrofied, and Setting Fire To Sleeping Giants) directed by Neurosis' Josh Graham.

Merging unparalleled musical bravery, prodigious musicianship, flawless execution and an angular landscape of forward thinking ideas, Dillinger reinvent the rock 'n roll idiom while pleasing their harshest critics: themselves. Miss Machine's modernist clang proves once and for all why DEP is a paradigm to be followed, a yardstick by which other bands are measured.

Up until the band's 2007 release of the further groundbreaking Ire Works, Miss Machine was the band's most experimental release to date, as the band drew from the experience of working with Mike Patton and the industrial influence of bands such as Nine Inch Nails. It is also arguably their most accessible due to the band toning down the musical complexity and adding new elements like slower song tempos, singing vocals, and more straight-forward song structures. The band still decided to use Metalcore producer Steve Evetts to produce their album.

TRACKLIST:

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

DVD Content:

Track DVD-1 live from Hellfest 2002.
Track DVD-3 and DVD-4 taken live from Los Angeles, CA.
Track DVD-5 and DVD-9 taken live from Orlando, FL.
Track DVD-6 taken live from Japan.
Track DVD-7 and DVD-8 taken live from Seattle, WA.

LINE-UP:

Benjamin Weinman – guitar, producer
Brian Benoit – guitar
Chris Pennie – drums
Greg Puciato – vocals
Liam Wilson – bass guitar