Deftones [Enhanced]

Deftones | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 20, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Label: Maverick
• ASIN: B00008YJQW
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (471 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,673 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Hexagram

2. Needles and Pins

3. Minerva

4. Good Morning Beautiful

5. Deathblow

6. When Girls Telephone Boys

7. Battle-axe

8. Lucky You

9. Bloody Cape

10. Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event

11. Moana

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

While alt/nu/rap-metal typically bounds between two emotional poles--pissed-off and extremely pissed-off--and a musical range to match, the Deftones continue to push the genre's narrow boundaries outward on their fourth big-label release. Mic man Chino Moreno's patent yowl belies a range of emotion rare in the genus, while guitarist Stephen Carpenter seasons his buzz-saw assault with some industrial-strength riff textures and mixer Frank Delgado's spooky, synthetic textures further underscore Moreno's blossoming lyrical impressionism. If they stray uncomfortably close to jagged-rhythms formula in the album's opening quarter, the almost sunny sensuality of "Good Morning Beautiful" heralds some welcome shafts of light amidst the storm clouds. From there on, the mood drifts from languor ("Deathblow") to brooding ("Battle-axe," "Lucky You"), while "Bloody Cape" edges the band ever closer to traditional pop hooks before drifting into the resigned, psych-torpor of "Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event." A compelling and encouraging album--even if it's taken them 15 years to get this far. Enhanced CD features include studio and day-in-the-life-of band video footage, as well as 150 candid photos. --Jerry McCulley

Product Description

The band's self-titled fourth album, as erotic as it is brutal, as relentless as it is gentle, rockets the Grammy-winning Deftones to the top of modern rock. Features 11 tracks, including the single "Minerva." --This text refers to the Vinyl edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ear Candy, January 2, 2007

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Sugar (Upstate NY, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Deftones (Audio CD)

It's been said many times here, but I'll say it again...this album is not "White Pony 2" or "Son of White Pony". With that being said, can we please stop pouting and move on?

This album is, arguably, the Deftones best album. No band on the planet marries such ambient and lush textures with such brutal power like these guys do, and that would make this their Sistine Chapel. Songs like "Hexagram" and "When Girls Telephone Boys" bludgeon you over the head to get your attention as opposed to tapping you on the shoulder, and "Good Morning Beautiful" and "Bloody Cape" have hooks that are so sugary-sweet your teeth will hurt listening to them. The crowning achievement here though, in my humble opinion, is the blistering "Needles and Pins", whose siren-like guitar work creates a sense of urgency and anxiety. I'm on the edge of my seat every time I hear it.

I think if "Around The Fur" and "White Pony" had a child, this album would be it. And I would spoil the hell out of it.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than White Pony?, May 20, 2003

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"knew15" (Powell River, BC CAN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Deftones (Audio CD)

I just picked up the cd today. First off there's 11 songs on it, Minerva and Bloody Cape seemed to have been left off the list on Amazon. I had only heard Lucky You from the Matrix Reloaded soundtrack and was quite suprised by the rest of the album. Unlike the ethereal White Pony, Deftones is much darker. Chino gives a very emotional and brooding preformance, personal favourite are "Needles and Pins", "Deathblow" and "Minerva". "When Girls Telephone Boys" is alot like old Deftones, but the rest of the cd is a progression from White Pony. The guitar is very catchy and Carpenter has come up with some of his best work yet; Delgados is incredible especially on "Lucky You"; Cheng provides a great atmosphere; and Cunningham creates great beats and drumming very enjoyable to pick apart. The track that really suprised me was "Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event" though, I'm not sure what to say about it. It's different from other Deftones songs and sounds very New Age, yet distinctly Deftones. This cd is better than White Pony and like all their albums is a progression from the last one.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars When they're ripe..., February 22, 2006

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Luke Rounda "ThreeStarSmash.com" (Lawrence, KS) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Deftones (Audio CD)

"White Pony" should stand as one of the best recordings made at the onset of the 21st century. Combining heavy metal guitars and futuristic electronica touches with the alternately delicate and larynx-rending singing style of Chino Moreno, "White Pony" would make the perfect soundtrack to some cyberpunk film noir that was never made: as sharp in its execution as a chrome shuriken and a tone and feel as blurry as the glow of neon in the rain.

It's hard to fault the Deftones for making a worse record than "White Pony," but we'll manage.

Where their magnum opus shoveled sludge at the listener in an octave more easily processed by the human ear, guitarist Stephen Carpenter seemingly sinks lower and lower into the quagmire of modern metal's fascination with ridiculously low guitar tunings. The result is guitar that sounds like someone threw Carpenter's amp stack into a lake, then tossed a blanket on top. Murky and characterless.

They're a band at their best when seamlessly integrating their influences; Moreno's Cure fixation at odds with heavy metal and DJ Frank Delgado's beatmaking skills all in the same roaring, dysfunctional lullaby. When the 'Tones draw lines instead of using a blender, they're in trouble. "Lucky You" and "Anniversary of An Uninteresting Event," while both interesting and able to stand on their own, smack of awkwardness in the song cycle of an otherwise heavy (and muffled) recording.

If there's something good to say, it's that the band's passions are still running high. In "Hexagram," Moreno's vocals are stretched almost to the point of breaking, making for a howling bridge piece that's the aural equivalent of trying to tie a rubber band around the trunk of a redwood tree. Other standouts include the single "Minerva," with its churning waves of blissful guitar fuzz, and the similarly constructed but downtempo tune, "Battle-Axe."

Overall the album is simply too formulaic for a band that proved themselves capable of writing a record like "White Pony." Yet, even with most of the songs sounding so similar, the flow of the album seems disjointed and fragmented -- where "White Pony" was an album, "Deftones" is merely a collection of songs.