Deftones
Deftones


3.5
great

Review

by Mctasty USER (2 Reviews)
March 11th, 2010 | 11 replies


Release Date: 2003 | Tracklist

Review Summary: Eh...

This was a really weird album for me. I was a very big fan of "White Pony", and I have since found "Around the Fur" and "Saturday Night Wrist" to be really excellent CDs. If not on a technical level, they certainly excelled emotionally, where they weren't dripping in faux angst like their nu metal peers. It was just intense enough to find interesting.

They were also interesting in their inconsistency, which is where I think their self-titled falters. Where "White Pony" was frequently dissonant and bizarre, we didn't expect anything else so that, even when it would change into, say, "Teenager", it would still make sense. This was also present in "Around the Fur", where "Dai the Flu" and "MX" have such slow and bizarre parts that it's almost disturbing, but they made it work.

With this CD, my only real complaint, and it is a rather large one, is that the songs seemed very similar as a whole. Individually, many songs are very unique and dissonant, but when you have the same sounds repeated over and over it seems overwhelming. This CD could have been one really long song as far as I could tell. Even with some stand out tracks, there is little difference between all the songs. "Minerva", then "Good Morning Beautiful", then "Deathblow", then "When Girls Telephone Boys". When looking back on them after listening, I found that the overall feel of these songs never change.

That's not to say that many of the songs on here aren't good. "Good Morning Beautiful" has possibly the most catchy chorus on the album, which makes it far more memorable. "Deathblow" has an excellent introduction bass line, and"Hexagram" is a very cool song with gorgeous guitar backing ridiculous screaming. "Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event" is probably the best song on here, being a very somber song and having a really gorgeous melody. "When Girls Telephone Boys", however mindless it may seem at first, is a very logical step in the whole flow of the album.

So in the end what I'm trying to say is that, though the album flows excellently, and most tracks on their own seem pretty good, together they almost seem relentlessly depressing and make "Deftones", at least before multiple listens, too big of a pill to swallow.


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bloozclooz
March 12th 2010


1770 Comments


i'm not gonna neg, but this is really just a string of (half formed) opinions.

Deviant.
Staff Reviewer
March 12th 2010


32288 Comments


Hmmm, i've seen worse reviews around but this does need some work man. You've got interesting things to say, but you're not saying them properly. Also, the structure of your review seems somewhat strange.

You've got quite a few run on sentences as well, as if mid-way through a sentence you get a new idea and immediately write it down

eternium
March 12th 2010


16358 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I don't understand at all why people don't like this album. Saying that it has no diversity is bullshit.

The review itself is just.. meh. Kind of immature sounding.

ShadowAmI
March 12th 2010


1541 Comments


s/t is my favorite so far.. ive listeend to around the fur , s/t , and white pony

asaf
March 12th 2010


967 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

i remember my first review...j/k



this is just your idea of the band's history, might as well have spent a paragraph talking about chi in a coma.

Mordecai.
March 12th 2010


8410 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Love this album

BassDemon333
March 12th 2010


3435 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

This album rules

Asiatic667
March 12th 2010


4651 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I actually find when girls telephone boys scary. The lyrics are so strange.

Chinos vocals are a lot more abrasive than many metal vocalists' in my opinion

TRMshadow
March 12th 2010


5119 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Album is amazing, just like band. Can't wait for Diamond Eyes

Mctasty
March 13th 2010


97 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

k did some editing. fixed some of the run ons. reads a bit better at least

Mctasty
March 13th 2010


97 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

fair enough



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