By the way, anyone who hasn't heard it or is putting off hearing it until it's available with the full sound quality - Hearts/Wires is being premiered on the BBC Radio 1 Rock Show tonight.
OK, I'm pretty impressed. I had all but conceded the idea of loving this album because the two officially-released tracks were so weak. Thankfully, it turns out they're not very representative at all. Yesterday I saw several references to a Smashing Pumpkins influence, particularly Mellon Collie era. I feel like that's pretty relevant to a big chunk of the record, after first listen. KNY had a little of that too, but this is darker... think more like "Zero" and "Where Boys Fear to Tread." That's definitely oversimplifying, though... I'm not even sure how I'd characterize the influences for a lot of these tracks, other than to say they feel more like a conscious deviation from Deftones' core sound than anything they've done the past decade.
I gotta hear this in higher quality but I loved it. Title track and Phantom Bride are an awesome one two punch
Hearing these reactions is making it so hard to not listen right now hahahaha but i am gonna hold out for the high quality versions.
The vinyl rip copy was never actually intended to be leaked. The guy who ripped it gave it to a couple of people and asked that it only be distributed among some non-newbie posters on sharinglungs (which is how I got hold of it pretty early this morning) in order to stop a shitty quality album leak flying around the internet for thousands of people to hear. Unfortunately some idiot gave it to a first-time poster and then that poster leaked it, which is why so many people have now heard it.
Apparently the director had no legal right to release it or something like that. I can't remember if there's been anything about it since then.