I've listened to the song 4 times and get nothing out of it. I can't remember what it sounds like at all after hearing it. Weird feeling when everyone else likes it.
Second morning with this song lodged in my head. I just want to be listening to it. Genesis, with which it shares some traits, to me now seems almost pedestrian in comparison.
Right there with you. It just sounds like a half-hearted amalgam of a bunch of better parts from their recent albums. Which I liked! Hopefully in context of the album I’ll like it more. Just happy these guys are still going strong after all these years.
Yeah I’m feeling the same about it. Like, it feels like an h'orderve and the new album is gonna be like a full three-course meal with dessert
I am really loving the new song, personally. I loved Ohms but honestly this feels like it builds off the best aspects of that record and feels refreshingly to-the-point, a la Swerve City. I like that they essentially reserve what would be the chorus in any other Deftones song for the bridge section and don’t repeat it. love Chino’s vocal performance, I feel like Steph has more energy than he has in a while, Abe is killing it as usual… it’s about as much as I could ask for from this band in their 50s(!!!). like seriously think it’s worth keeping in perspective that this band is in that age bracket, think of what any other legendary band was doing at this point in their career and it probably pales in comparison. hell yes it is!! Self-Titled juuuust barely edges it out for my favorite, but I do think ATF is their most “perfect” album (most people will say White Pony but I disagree). in general I feel like the band is just firing on all cylinders, like they’re all giving ferocious performances, it’s bottled lightning.
i'm doing a discog run and have decided I think the ending of Bloody Cape is Abe's masterpiece. the lone double kick with the quick upbeat/downbeat switch, those four slammin quarter note kicks in a row, every creative decision there goes for maximum impact, don't think you could write the drums for that part any heavier if you tried
Self-titled has some of Abe’s best drum work. The double bass he pulls out in When Girls Telephone Boys still gets me hyped
Reminds me how much they emphasized their collective love for drums and beats on Zane Lowe's interview. I'm not a drummer (though I can air/teeth drum to some of their stuff) but if I had picked that instrument up as a kid, I would've looked up to Abe so much
impossibly hard for me to narrow his best moment down to any one section or full song for that matter but you give a great argument here. I do think ATF and SNW are his best full album performances. the former bc it feels so raw, urgent, and primal, and the latter bc it features imo his most technical performance and it kinda feels like he’s trying some new things here and there throughout.
I've played drums for over 20 years. A few months ago, I was listening to the self-titled on my headphones and decided I'd go to my kit and play along. On paper, most of that stuff isn't too hard to play. But making it feel right? Deceptively difficult. I was way off.
Abe standouts for me, off the top of my head: Digital Bath (favorite snare sound ever) Knife Prty Bloody Cape Beware Xerces You've Seen the Butcher What Happened to You?
The drum sounds on ATF are godly. The toms sound amazing, the “different snare on each song” thing is cool too
apparently My Own Summer’s drum sounds are Terry’s favorite he’s ever gotten, according to interviews I have seen/read from him.
That was the first Deftones song I ever heard. I was 12. Hooked from that day on. I asked for ATF for Christmas that year and my mom put a piece of construction paper over the cover so my little siblings wouldn’t see it.