Album Rating: 4.5

I can confirm that the reason all us British people have bad teeth is because of the buttfucking residue.

Album Rating: 5.0

good taste

Album Rating: 5.0

IF LIKE

YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Album Rating: 4.5

Bestones.

Album Rating: 5.0

All us SNW lovers can hope for is EROS to drop and be the epic finality of this era of Deftones.

Album Rating: 4.5

You've heard Smile right? Such an amazing song.

Album Rating: 4.5

You've heard Smile right? Such an amazing song.

Album Rating: 5.0

I heard Smile once a few years back and immediately stopped listening cuz I would've rather heard it in the context of the album rather than a randomly leaked/released song.

Album Rating: 4.5

Understandable. I got into the Deftones late and Smile was one of the first songs I heard by them (the first being Tempest). Hasn't really left my mind and I just wish we had Eros.

Album Rating: 3.5

Second best tones for me. Just went back and listened and it passed white pony, but I still slightly prefer diamond eyes to this

Album Rating: 4.5

Wristin

Album Rating: 4.0

Great album for getting emotional...well at least at some tracks.



Xerces is so unreal.

Album Rating: 4.5

Chino is such an underrated lyricist. He gets a lot of shit because he obscures his lyrics intentionally with metaphor and non-sequiturs so that you can't really tell what he's talking about a lot of the time, but I prefer that so much to typical lyrics like 'I feel blah, you did blah, now I want to blah'. I'm so sick of that shit. Chino is a damn poet and a voice that will never be replaced in a million years.



Seriously... the things that guy does with his voice though...



Just fine

Everything is fine

Everything's just fine

Album Rating: 4.0

↑ 100% agree, friendo

Album Rating: 4.0

Chino's abstract lyricism can be frustrating but it's still beautiful and certainly anchors itself as being distinctly Deftones.

Album Rating: 4.5

I love Chino's lyrics too. His musical and lyrical aesthetics are super unique.

Album Rating: 4.5

Can't decide



to



hit the ground

Album Rating: 4.5

Damn, well put apocalypse.



Somewhat related in topic, around when Diamond Eyes came out Chino talked a lot of about wanting to focus on using his lyrics to tell these fictional stories, which seems like such an obvious thing really, but it's pretty genius in execution and I really love how so many Deftones lyrics tell these little abstract narratives, all the way back to Adrenaline days. There is also often this weird uncomfortable duality of emotion that I really only get from Deftones...



An example I've been thinking about is the song Mascara. The chorus is so poignant and beautiful.



'but it's something about her long shady eyes, I'm all about her shade tonight'



His delivery is so aching and full of longing, you can't help but be in his shoes at that moment, lusting after this mystery girl... that you almost forget that this a story from the perspective of a violent unstable dude who beats the living shit out of his gf/spouse who he's infatuated with and dominates. When that bridge comes in you really don't know where the song is going and when the tension is finally released with those discordant chords and beat of the outro, it's almost an emotional betrayal of the listener; You were lulled into empathizing with the sicko protagonist and that outro leaves no doubt whatsoever that this is a dark song with no happy ending, and you're almost complicit in it by falling under its spell.



Anyway sorry for pretentious over-baked wall of text but I'm a fanboy and I've put a lot of thought into a lot of Deftones songs because they honestly capture my imagination in a big way.

Album Rating: 4.0

Last night I dreamed that I was doing an interview to Chino and I ask him why in ATF in some songs like rickets he whisper in the verses to the point that you can't hear what is saying and he answered me something like "I took the quiet verse, loud chorus very seriously".

Album Rating: 4.0

And that's a pretty accurate dream because that's the kind of answeres I'd expect from him