This new direction is at times interesting and produces one of the albums best tracks in Cherry Waves, a beautiful meandering number with one of Moreno’s finest vocal performances in the band’s history. A big influence on this is easily apparent in Chino Moreno’s ambient side project Team Sleep as many of the tracks contained on this release are infused with elements of electronica and a far lighter and more abstract tone than anything the band has attempted in the past. The progresion is far more slight than that shown on the previous two releases but the sound has changed nonetheless. Prime examples of this are the seminal Beware, which starts out slow and brooding and slowly picks up steam before exploding into a soaring chorus and Mein, which features a guest appearance by System of a Down vocalist Serj Tankian and a distinctly Around the Fur feel in song structure and sound. Some tracks fuse the crunching melodic riffs of Around the Fur with the ethereal, slower tempo aesthetics of White Pony. While there is significant amount of change between the self titled album and this, there are also distinct elements of the sound that can be traced back to the band’s previous work. The answer is that they have achieved a combination of both. Would this occur or would the band finally settle on their laurels and reproduce an element of their past? If the Deftones were to be classed as progressive then another big change would be expected. This brings me to the present and the Deftones’ fifth album Saturday Night Wrist and the second half of the quote. A mixture of ambience, strange and oft unmelodic riffs, schizophrenic vocal styles and extremely abstract lyrics resulted in an album that exhibited startlingly little resemblance to its predecessors. Instead of trying to repeat this however their self titled fourth album was instead a departure from everything they had become known for. The album was the high point of the band’s career in terms of mainstream critical acclaim and fan approval. While the change in their second album Around the Fur was slight, their third, 2000’s White Pony, was a massive leap to the leftfield for the band, incorporating atmospheric aesthetics and somewhat more sedate but no less intense tempo.
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From the release of their full length album Adrenaline in 1995 the band has consistently altered their sound with every album. If you were to engage this exercise with the Deftones however, it’s highly likely you would think you were listening to two different bands. (That Nobel Prize for tenuous links is so mine) The majority of bands follow the first half of this quote with little exception, sometimes the change is slow and sometimes sudden but I can guarantee that if you were to listen to the debut and most recent albums of any one band with a substantial career you would find a significant amount of difference. If we were to take that principle and apply it to bands by way of switching the word ‘country’ with ‘band’ it fits somewhat snugly. Now I know what you’re thinking, ‘What in the seventh level of hell does that have to do with a Deftones album?’ but just bear with me here. In a progressive country change is constant’. Some guy called Benjamin Disraeli once said ‘Change is inevitable.