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Rating:
You're probably tired of duplicates, but I wanted to begin my debaserian career by reviewing what is my favorite album.
An album I wouldn't dare to call "nu metal," but something much more varied and complex to describe.
The fury of the 4 from Sacramento (plus the new entry of Frank Delgado) still burns in episodes like "Feiticeira", "Elite", and "Korea" but makes room for a more introspective calm, already experimented by the group in their previous album with "Be Quiet And Drive".
The artistic peak of "Digital Bath" will never be reached again in the band's future productions, a track with a sensual rhythm, a warm and enveloping voice with a guitar that first caresses you and then slashes your throat and instead of blood lets a flow of thoughts and emotions run.
Yes, emotions, because many are experienced in this album, all impeccably told, like the sad love story of "Rx Queen" or the nostalgic episodes of Chino Moreno's adolescence in "Street Carp" and "Teenager", where the latter has notable trip-hop cues.
"Knife Party" is a soporific song, not because it's boring, but magical. A spiral of smoke and notes rocks us, not in a nice soft and warm bed, but in the middle of a dirty and filthy floor while towards the end of the song, Chino's vocal acrobatics transport our minds elsewhere, this time in a car.
You're with the one you love and two voices push your head like a swinging. The adrenaline rises, you can no longer restrain your desires and you explode in the chorus, screamed by an out-of-control Maynard James Keenan, tempered by a sweet piano outro. That was "Passenger".
Peace and melancholy return, and the room is tinged with gray. The muffled melodies of "Change" project a particular sequence in this gray room: a white horse galloping carefreely in the middle of this seemingly infinite space, it almost seems to come to life.
This sequence also eventually dissolves, making way for the Deftones' last gift.
I'm talking about "Pink Maggit", the pearl that closes the album: distorted arpeggios and other memories emerging from the past that explode into a musical big bang.
"Pushed back to square now that you kneed her in the throat, well there you go. 'Cause back to school we are the leaders of all".
The work certainly doesn't deserve five stars (or dots), but for me, this album means too much.
Tracklist Lyrics Samples and Videos
01 Feiticeira (03:09)
Fuck I'm drunk, but
I'm off my knees
The police stopped chasing me, i'm her
new cool meat
She pops the trunk, and
she removes me
the machine takes
Pictures of us
and my jaw and my teeth hurt
I'm choking
from gnawing
on the ball
And just before I come to
move to the back of the car
she made me touch the machine
New murderer...
fuck
First, untie me
Untie me for now
You said you would, right?
And you were right
(soon I'll let you go, soon i'll let you go)
Soon this'll be all over
Well I hope soon
She sang
soon this'll be all over
well i hope soon
So she sang
(soon I'll let you go, soon i'll let you go)
so she sang
(soon i'll let you go, soon i'll let you go.....)
02 Digital Bath (04:15)
You move like I want to
To see like your eyes do
We are downstairs where
No one can see
New life breakaway
Tonight I feel like more
Tonight I
You make the water warm
You taste foreign
And I know you can see
The cord breakaway
Cause tonight I feel like more
Tonight I feel like more
Feel like more
You breathed
Then you stopped
I breathed then dried you off
And tonight
I feel like more
Tonight
I feel like more
Tonight I feel like more
I feel like more
03 Elite (04:01)
When you're ripe you'll
Bleed out of control
You'll bleed out of control
You like attention
it proves to you you're alive
Stop parading your angles
Confused?
You'll know when you're ripe
When you're ripe
Bleed out of control
You'll bleed out of control
You're pregnant with all this
Space thick with honey
But I lost my taste
You're into depression cause
It matches your eyes
Stop the faux to be famous
Confused?
You'll know when you're ripe
04 RX Queen (04:27)
I won't stop following you
Now help me pray for
The death of everything new
Then we'll fly farther
'Cause you're my girl
And that's all right
If you sting me
I won't mind
We'll stop to rest on the moon
And we'll make a fire
I'll steal a carcass for you
Then feed off the virus
'Cause you're my girl
And that's all right
if you sting me
I won't mind
'Cause you're my girl
And that's all right
if you sting me
I won't mind
Now look at em
Look at em now
Look at em sting
Now look at em
Look at em now
Look at em sting
Now look at em
Look at em now
Look at em sting
Now look at em
Look at em now
Look at em sting
I see a red light in June
And I hear crying
You turn newborn baby blue
Now we're all the virus
You're my girl
And that's all right
if you sting me
I won't mind
'Cause you're my girl
And that's all right
if you sting me
I won't
Now look at em
Look at em now
Look at em sting
Now look at em
Look at em now
Look at em sting
Now look at em
Look at em now
Look at em sting
Now look at em
Look at em now
Look at em sting
Sting
Sting
05 Street Carp (02:41)
It's not that I care
(truly)
But you're that girl
(with sharp teeth)
Who grabs at the walls
(and pulls meat down)
Well here's my new address
664
ohh I forget
It's not like I care
(truly)
But you're that girl
(with gold teeth)
Who snaps at the walls
(and won't calm down)
Well here's my new address
615
ohh I forget
There's all your evidence
Now take it home
Run with it
Now write it down now
Did you get it?
Well here's my new address
665
ohh
I confess
There's all your evidence
Now take it home and fuck with it
06 Teenager (03:20)
I climbed your arms
Then you pulled away
New cavity moved into
My heart today
The more she sings
The more it seems
That now I'm through
Now I'm through
With the new you
Now I'm through
With the new you
New....You
I drove you home
Then you moved away
New cavity moved into
My heart today
The more I scream
The more it seems
Now I'm through
Now I'm through
With the new you
Now I'm through
With the new you
Now I'm through
With the new you
New....you
07 Knife Prty (04:49)
My knife it's sharp and chrome
Come see inside my bones
All of the fiends are on the block
I'm the new king
I taste the queen
In here we are all anemic
In here anemic and sweet
Go get your knife go get your knife
And come in
Go get your knife go get your knife
And lay down
Go get your knife go get your knife
Now kiss me
I can float here forever
In this room we can't touch
The floor in here
We're all anemic
In here anemic and sweet so
Go get your knife go get your knife
And come in
Go get your knife go get your knife
And lay down
Go get your knife go get your knife
Now kiss me
08 Korea (03:23)
I taste you much better
Off teeth taste
Of white skin on red leather
Check the claws we got
Night time! Cavity! To come in!
Downtown! Pony! Work your pitch!
I came to in feathers
Like leaves taste
You rubbed me together
With claws like we got
Night time! Cavity! To come in!
Downtown! Pony! Work your pitch!
Daytime! Dancer! I'll come inside!
Got my teacher...now carve your niche!
Uuuhmm...
Check the clouds!
Fucker! Fucker! Fucker! Fuck! Fuck! (4x)-----Just Turntables
It's yours!!!
It's yours!!!
Your turn to come inside!
Night time! Cavity! To come in!
Downtown! Pony! Work your pitch!
Daytime! Dancer! I'll come inside!
Got my teacher...now carve your...
Niche...niche...niche...niche...
09 Passenger (06:08)
Here I lay
Still and breathless
Just like always
Still I want some more
Mirrors sideways
Who cares what's behind
Just like always
Still your passenger
The chrome buttons, buckles on leather surfaces
These and other lucky witnesses
Now to calm me
This time won't you please
Drive faster!
Roll the window down
This cool night air is curious
Let the whole world look in
Who cares who sees anything?
I'm your passenger
I'm your passenger
Drop these down
Then and put them on me
Nice cool seats there
To cushion your knees
Now to calm me
Take me around again
Don't pull over
This time won't you please
Drive faster!
Roll the window down
This cool night air is curious
Let the whole world look in
Who cares who sees what tonight?
Roll these misty windows
Down to catch my breath again
Go and go and don't just
Drive me home then back again!
Here I lay
Just like always
Don't let me
Go
Go
Go
Go
Go
Go
Go
Go
Go
Take me to the end
10 Change (In the House of Flies) (05:01)
I watched you change
Into a fly
I looked away
You were on fire
I watched a change in you
It's like you never had wings
Now you feel so alive
I've watched you change
I took you home
Set you on the glass
I pulled off your wings
Then I laughed
I watched a change in you
like you never had wings
Now you feel so alive
I've watched you change
Like you never had wings
I I I I I I I I I I I I I I
I look at the cross
Then I look away
Gave you the gun
To blow me away
I watched a change in you
It's like you never had wings
Now you feel so alive
I've watched you change
You feel alive
You feel alive
You feel alive
I've watched you change
It's like you never had wings
I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I
You changed
You changed
You changed
11 Pink Maggit (07:38)
I'll stick you a little
Enough to take your
Oxygen away
Then I'll set you on fire
'Cause I'm on fire
And I'm with you alone
I'm so into this whore
Be afraid
I might lose her so forget about me
Because I'll stick you
Pushed back to square
Now that you've kneed her
In the throat
Well there you go
'Cause back in school
We are the leaders
Of all so transpose
Or stop you life is what you do
All you are to me is meat
Now pass the flask
Pushed back to square
Now that you've kneed her
In the throat
But you don't
Well there you go
'Cause back in school
We are the leaders
Of all so transpose
Or stop you life is what you do
Transpose
Or stop you life is what you do
Pushed back to square
Now that you've kneed her
In the throat
Well there you go
'Cause back in school
We are the leaders of it all
We are, we are
All you are, all you are
All you are, all you are
Is me
12 The Boy's Republic (04:38)
blue star
shine your light down
on everyone cause
i don't care
their soothing me
yes tear lung
blue star
shine your light down
pierce for my face
to heal my veins
down on everyone
cause i do care
their soothing me
tear lungs
it's more it's more
down shine light
shine your light
down
it's more it's more
on everyone cause i don't care
you're soothing me their lungs
blue star
shine your light
shine your light
shine your light down
blue star down
blue star shine down
on everyone cause i don't care
you're soothing me
their lungs
it's more
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