Pylon (album)

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Pylon
Killing Joke - Pylon.jpg
Studio album by
Killing Joke
Released23 October 2015
Recorded
Genre
Length57:03
Label
Producer Tom Dalgety, Killing Joke
Killing Joke chronology
MMXII
(2012)		Pylon
(2015)		Lord of Chaos
(2022)

Pylon is the fifteenth studio album by English post-punk band Killing Joke, released on 23 October 2015 by Spinefarm Records, distributed worldwide by Universal Music Group. The album was recorded in the UK and the Czech Republic and co-produced by the band and Tom Dalgety. [2] It was preceded by the release of "I Am the Virus" and "Euphoria" was subsequently released as the album's second single. Jaz told biographer Jyrki "Spider" Hämäläinen that it was their Cold War album. [3]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 77/100 [4]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Consequence of Sound C [6]
Drowned in Sound 8/10 [7]
Kerrang! Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [8]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [10]
Record Collector Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [11]
Uncut Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [12]

Pylon has received an approval rating of 77/100 based on eleven reviews on review aggregator website Metacritic. [4]

AllMusic wrote: "Pylon doesn't sound terribly innovative within the band's body of work, but the album's widescreen sound and bone-fracturing impact leave no doubt that Killing Joke are still deeply committed to what they do, and it's genuinely remarkable that they're still sounding this furious and effective 35 years after their debut album." [5]

Pylon peaked at the No. 16 position on the UK Albums Chart, thus it became the third-highest charting album of the band's career (tied with 1994's Pandemonium ). [13] Pylon ranked at No. 10 in Rolling Stone 's list of the "20 Best Metal Albums of 2015". [14]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Killing Joke (Jaz Coleman, Paul Ferguson, Youth and Geordie Walker)

No.TitleLength
1."Autonomous Zone"6:43
2."Dawn of the Hive"6:28
3."New Cold War"6:51
4."Euphoria"4:16
5."New Jerusalem"6:10
6."War on Freedom"4:40
7."Big Buzz"5:02
8."Delete"5:00
9."I Am the Virus"5:38
10."Into the Unknown"6:15
Total length:57:03
Limited deluxe edition bonus disc
No.TitleLength
1."Apotheosis"6:25
2."Plague"5:50
3."Star Spangled"5:30
4."Panopticon"8:45
5."Snakedance" (Youth 'Rattlesnake Dub' Remix)7:55

Personnel

Killing Joke
Technical

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  3. ↑ Hämäläinen, Jyrki "Spider" (2020). Killing Joke: Are You Receiving?, p. 194. Milton Keynes: New Haven Publishing. ISBN   978-1912587407.
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