Uit verveling post ik het. Deze reviewer is een idioot 'alle albums die hetzelfde klinken'. En om nou op kantoor een album te luisteren enzo.
Maar goed, lees het ook maar, of niet.
Misschien idee om te laten weten wat je van deftones vindt, zijn ze een van de 'innovaters' of nu-metal? Welk album het best en waarom? Of vind je ze overhyped enz.
Kortom: Uw mening over deftones en de verwachtingen van het nieuwe album
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alternative press deftones review 3/5
How panicky are the major labels over Kazaa and it's file-sharing brethren? Well, to prevent any pre-release leakage of the new Deftones album, Warner Bros. is at DEFCON 1, refusing to release any advance copies and spinning the CD only under tight security and its offices. Which is how this reviewer ended up sequestered in a conference room at WB HQ (with pen and paper only, no electronic devices allowed) to hear Deftones. It was a setup only John Ashcroft could love, but the chairs were comfy and the publicist offered pizza and bottled water - a far cry from the time when payola came in the form of crisp $100 bills and bags of blow.
As far as the music, the album sounds like a million bucks. That is, it sounds like it cost a million bucks to produce Deftones is awash in the band's trademark giant grinding rifts, throbbing drums and sparkling atmospherics. Unfortunately, singer Chino Moreno, one of the more talented graduates of the Mike Patton school of extreme vocal dynamics, wants to sound like he's suffocating under his own self-loathing - but he's really drowning in the production mix. Terry Date is at the boards for the fourth time straight, and he doesn't let one damn hertz go to waste as he piles on the sound. This is an album made for studio monitors; I'll bet there are effects on it only your dog can hear.
On the opener, "Hexagram", Moreno whispers and groans and whines as the bass drives the song, and then lets loose with his white-noise scream on the chorus just as the guitas crunch in. There's no mistaking it as anything but a Deftones song - and it's a solid one at that. But it's a bit predictable - and the same can be said about most of Deftones.
The best songs here are the biggest departues. "Lucky You", which is headed for the Matrix Reloaded soundtrack, sounds like it could be that movie's score. With the guitars taking a backseat, turntableist Frank Delgado gets to flex, and he creates a futuristic almost-dance track, a bold update on the ambient grind of bands like Skinny Puppy and Massive Attack. And "Bloody Cape", complete with piano, chiming bells and minimal guitar, is -dare I say- pretty; and its relatively lightweight production makes it an oasis among the albums otherwise dense songs.
I know it's sacrilege to say Deftones are at their best without their patented wall of guitar distortion, but after four very similar albums, they seem to be in danger of painting themselves into a corner. Deftones proves they've got the chops - and hints of desire- to break out and alter their sound. Maybe it's time to give Terry Date a holiday and let someone else capture their creativity.
3/5
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