- Label: 'Ambush Reality'
- Genre: 'Rock'
- Release Date: '26th Oct 2010 (digital) / 29th Nov 2010 (7'
Our Rating:
Not so much an example of genre hybridity as a musical identity crisis, 'Destabilise' leaps between bouncing' techno (only slowed down to push the expansive, epic and anthemic qualities) and Post-Hardcore / Nu-metal, taking in almost anything and everything in between on board just for good measure. Or perhaps not such good measure, given that the result is an all-over-the-shop musical mess.
They may have built themselves a fairly substantial fanbase, but really, this is crap in the Pendulum sense that it draws together the worst, the naffest of all of the elements of everything in a random smash-and-grab raid on a particularly trend-orientated music store. In fairness, there are some good moments, but juxtaposed with so much other sonic junk that doesn't that they simply get buried or otherwise sound plain wrong and out of context. Frankly, I think I'd prefer to enter Shakira - through the mouth, feet first, and be made to listen to her goat-like bleating from within - over the prospect of Enter Shikari.
