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"Deftones - The last garbage, if you ask me ..."
Who has heard the like in the face of such a situation, when it came to describing his own musical tastes the critical colleague who may please raise your hands.
Well, unfortunately I can not see how many hands are straight up, but it will undoubtedly be many.
And so we are right the problem, before a band is, which had its hitherto greatest success with an album that was fine with no exceptions in the former music trends. "Around the Fur" pressed and pressed even today the Deftones in a drawer, which they have long outgrown. NuMetal since his death decried as pompous degeneration of some postpubertal older children, all vorran a certain Fred Durst, who made more by flamboyant speeches as carefully were opened (not for nothing called Wes Borland with his Austieg the band as a "sell out "). This principle applies to most of these questionable acts. But not at all, which unfortunately only few people know. So it comes as no surprise then that statements such as those mentioned above be made without the people concerned at all had the appropriate horizon for to usurp such allegations.
With this problem, the Deftones are struggling even today, this disc still appear in achso fateful 2000 but with a different ...
Because what the band had since ausbaldowert in the last three years, each common description eluded in appearance. The first track of the album contained some shenanigans with odd strokes and alternate merciless tough with more rock, sometimes even gentle songs from. The two largest outliers form "Knife Party" and "Passenger", which also includes MJ Keenan of Tool made a not very significant contribution. The vocals have never been so lifted in a Deftones plant and dominant as in these two tracks. The other two really special pieces are "Korea", which is led by one of the most most driving guitar riffs that ever went into production and in which one recognizes the Deftones in their usual strength, and "Change" that an enormous amount of disturbing melancholy leads and generates a voltage that can be practically touching.
Why the sound has changed to a large extent so? This is relatively easy to explain: Chino Moreno has stopped rapping and Frank Delgado finally came added as an official band member 5tes. Delgado had already contributed to the first productions cuts to songs, but with its official inclusion in the band structure ermöglichete him the completely new and especially spacious, creative approaches - has what the other 4 guys make in their certainly not harmed.
Delgado can not be compared with the usual 08/15 DJs as they "add value" bands like Linkin Park or Limp Bizkit. These gentlemen restricting virtually meaningless Scratch sessions (so that they have at all times something to report) and carelessly turned diced hip-hop beats, put it in Delgado apparently from the beginning of the musician, who understands it perfectly, to go to the band structure and instrumental and vocal parts to accentuate coherent. His most powerful weapon is still the synthesizer that offers a very warm and push the songs especially harmonizes very well with Chi Cheng bass. The interspersed samples are also now more atmospheric and less global approach, so to speak, the final touch. All this contributed to the fact that all arrangements something floating and very sublime and suddenly received an entirely new level, how it was until then not used.
And here the band faced another problem: such was the recognition to this development, so great was in the long-established fans of the first day, the disappointment over the lack of aggression and the Spiked cudgel that doling out suddenly more pats than punches (the best example the reviewer below me). It took a while until the album was full recognition. And I must admit yourself that this is a spoken aloud bulky piece of work, a precious bottle of wine that reveals its full flavor only with intensive, consumed moderately. The term "progressive" forces itself to ...
Who has the album but firstonce developed which will determine that this is undoubtedly one of the best Deftones works at all. And that is why I appeal to all those who think in drawers or pushed from this CD on the head (also in the Lord with me), if you have the Deftones have not mochtet buying this album! And if you already have and not really anything to do with it know it sounds up and down ten times, twenty times. At some point you will notice what you have missed so far.