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Author : Deftones
Release Date : 20030520
Binding : Audio CD
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Editorial Reviews :
While alt/nu/rap-metal typically bounds between two emotional poles--pissed-off and extremely pissed-off--and a musical range to match, the Deftones continue to push the genre's narrow boundaries outward on their fourth big-label release. Mic man Chino Moreno's patent yowl belies a range of emotion rare in the genus, while guitarist Stephen Carpenter seasons his buzz-saw assault with some industrial-strength riff textures and mixer Frank Delgado's spooky, synthetic textures further underscore Moreno's blossoming lyrical impressionism. If they stray uncomfortably close to jagged-rhythms formula in the album's opening quarter, the almost sunny sensuality of 'Good Morning Beautiful' heralds some welcome shafts of light amidst the storm clouds. From there on, the mood drifts from languor ('Deathblow') to brooding ('Battle-axe,' 'Lucky You'), while 'Bloody Cape' edges the band ever closer to traditional pop hooks before drifting into the resigned, psych-torpor of 'Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event.' A compelling and encouraging album--even if it's taken them 15 years to get this far. Enhanced CD features include studio and day-in-the-life-of band video footage, as well as 150 candid photos. --Jerry McCulley
Buyer Reviews :
For a band with so much potential, after four albums the Deftones still can't quite take it to the next level. They've always been just a few steps away from greatness, but unfortunately this album sets them another step back. That's especially disappointing for an album that appears three years after the last one - the less solid but more interesting White Pony. Whereas White Pony took many experimental risks, the risks were intriguing even if they didn't always work. In contrast, this new album is more solid but becomes an unswinging and sludgy mess.
Sadly, the catalyst of the Deftones, singer Chino Moreno, is also their Achilles heel. Moreno should definitely be praised for his passion, and he is trying extremely hard to convey emotional power in his singing, with a work ethic similar to Korn's Jonathan Davis. But technically, Moreno can't nearly pull off what he's trying to accomplish. He's capable of exactly two kinds of vocalizing - tunelessly moaning under his breath and tunelessly screaming at the top of his lungs, in the process wrecking just about every song on this disc. Meanwhile guitarist Stephen Carpenter is tragically under-utilized. He's one of metal's great hidden secrets, and his talent for surprisingly dramatic riffs really brightened up the previous albums, especially Around the Fur. But here that quality only shows up in the album's two best songs - 'Good Morning Beautiful' and 'When Girls Telephone Boys.' Otherwise Carpenter is dragged down to everyone else's level of sludge. Also watch out for this album's obligatory electronic experiment 'Lucky You,' which is better than the awful 'Teenager' from the last album but still badly out of place; while the dramatic ballad attempt 'Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event' is a sad failure. For a band that doesn't create new music very frequently, I don't know how many more chances the Deftones are gonna get.
(by doomsdayer520)
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