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Rating: I could compare the latest effort from Deftones to a pill that induces emotions that seem entirely genuine or utterly fake, or perhaps produces a certain "Deja Vu", all depending on how you experience the moment just before swallowing it; in "Hole in the Earth", "Rapture", and "Beware", for example, Moreno's voice is ready to sweeten (and scream) sinuous words over us, with that unmistakable timbre and a base essentially filled with the usual distorted vibrations and electro mixes in full style of the Sacramento group from the 'White Pony' era, all filtered through a production more akin to the dry self-titled CD "Deftones".
If "Cherry Waves" structurally seems like a variation on the theme of "Change" from the aforementioned album with the white pony, "Tilde" is of the same caliber, with its shamelessly catchy chorus. "Mein", "U, u, . . . Select, Start", and "Rats, Rats, Rats!" are the most intricate and noteworthy episodes, with Serj Tankian's voice in the final chorus of the first mentioned song and the remarkable pseudo-lysergic digression in the second raising the bar and undoubtedly being considered elements of substance. The third, no less, has a Tool-like restart ("Ticks and leeches" docet) with a sure impact. This piece will certainly become one that will insinuate itself among those the band must compulsorily produce live amidst the classic "knee-breakers" of their repertoire.
The "Teamslippian" "Pink Cellphone" leads us to the final trilogy that confirms what has been said so far: our guys have partially abandoned the elements of the predecessor and have drawn heavily from the experiments of 'White Pony', achieving a decent album but with a certain déjà entendu that might discourage purchase from those who are not fans of the band.
What idea have you formed, will you take the pill or not?
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Hole in the Earth (04:53)
Can you explain to me how
You're so evil (how?)
It's too late for me now
There's a hole in the earth (a hole in earth)
There's a hole in the earth (a hole in the earth)
I'm out...
Can you explain to me now
If you're still able well...
I think you know the truth
There's a hole in the earth (a hole in the earth)
I'm out
I hate all of my friends
They all lack taste sometimes
There's a hole in the earth
I'm out...
There's a hole in the earth
Please take a bow...
This is the end (somewhere)
This is the end
Somewhere...
There's a hole in the earth
There's a hole in the earth
I hate all of my friends
I'm out...
There's a hole in the earth
Hey...
Somewhere
02 Combat (04:34)
This time the finger's pointed right at you!
Whose side are you on?!
Whose side are you on?!
I ask you what side since you pointed it out
Whose side are you on?!
Whose side are you on?!
A waste of time if you don't believe
Can't decide till you've hit the ground
Make your mind because you're holding me down
(And I want to get down)
This time the finger's pointed right at you!
Whose side are you on?!
Whose side are you on?!
I asked you what side since you pointed it out
Whose side are you on?!
Whose side are you on?!
A waste of time if you don't believe
Can't decide till you've hit the ground
Make your mind because 'cause you're holding me down
(And I want to get down)
Don't think that I don't know 'cause I do
Nice try
Guess that's what you're really like. Like
Let something out, say something else
Decide whose side you're on
Whose side are you on?! Decide. Go on.
04 Cherry Waves (04:54)
A sea of waves
We hug the same plank
Just as I rehearsed over in my brain
The waves...
Suck...
You in
And you drown
If like you
Should sink down beneath
I'll swim down
With you...you....
You hang the anchors over my neck
I liked it at first
but the more you laughed
The crazier I came...
The waves...
Suck....you in
Then you drown...
If, like, you
Should sink down beneath
I'll swim down with you....
Is that what you want?...
You....
Is that what you want?...
Waves...
Waves...
it's like...
If like you
Should sink down beneath
I'll swim down with you!
Is that you want?
With you...
Is that what you want?
You?
You...
Escape...below...
06 Mein (04:31)
I've looked outside
But I, never wandered out
I'd like to pull you into me
Intercept you in between
But I, never wandered out
Outside
That way I'll always stay away from you
I've looked inside
But I, never wandered in
I'd like to pull it into me
Intercept you in between
But I, never wandered in
Inside
That way I'll always stay away from you
The universe, breaking us down
That way I'll always stay away from you
16 Xerces (04:03)
Universe
Surrounds you
When you're ready it waits
For us to leave this earth
Come on, they're calling your name out
I don't know
I could stay or leave
Either way
Cause the comet can take us
All the way through
Goodbye
Safe, heaven, new
I'll be waving
Goodbye
Return
To see
Everything looks the same
I don't know if the change it made was grave
Cause the craving remained the same
Goodbye
Safe, heaven, new
I'll be waving
Goodbye
I'll be waving, goodbye
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By Ginky
One of the best tracks on the album.
Surely this atrocity is the worst thing ever conceived by Chino and company.
By maz74
MASTERPIECE!
music to travel through the metropolitan night without a destination...
By thetrooper
This time the change of direction is somewhat more pronounced than in the previous self-titled album.
A work that is not very fast and driven but calmer, more thoughtful, and quite engaging, a must-buy for lovers of experimental rock and nu sounds.
By Ginoleo
Delgado, the keyboardist, manages to create dreamlike atmospheres where Chino’s voice sings like a long lament, sometimes melancholic, other times angry.
I feel like saying it’s better this way, S.N.W. lives with its own soul and in its thousand facets cannot undergo sorts of comparisons.
