Essentially just another Pendulum track, enough said. Don't get me wrong, Pendulum were intuitively innovative, and should be credited for their amalgamation of musical genres, but their remixes often leave a bitter taste in my mouth; as the saying goes "if it ain't broke don't fix it". With every remix they put out, the original song receives a good battering from their now cheesy synths and generic, heavy guitar distortion. The track "Stay Too Long"survives just a minute of Plan B's high pitched yet fairly decent vocals before it is battered as the Pendulum build-up kicks in much to my annoyance.
It is so predictable! I knew from the offset that as soon as a glimpse of Pendulum seeped through that Plan B would revert to his anger driven lyrical flow accompanined with displeasing sirens. It's one thing for Pendulum to continue making conservative and unchanging music for thmeselves, but to sabotage other artist's work is not on.
What really gets to me about this remix is that the work Pendulum put in is clearly minimal and very lazy. I would put money on the fact that when they heard this song they thought that Plan B had given it to them on a plate as the track is so easily transformed into one of their own; at least with their take on Prodigy's "Voodoo People", it felt like a fair amount of time had gone into the production process.
Pendulum offer nothing new and the only saving grace in this track was that Rob Swire's irritating robotic voice was not present. But if that's the only positive to be found in a release then...
If I was Plan B I would throw this remix back in their face, and smash Pendulum's synthesisers for good measure for destroying a quality tune.
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