Deftones — Saturday Night Wrist

9/10 In setting up this review, I’ve described Saturday Night Wrist as being recorded (to quote one of the funniest movies of all time) direct from hell. Very shortly after this album was released, I got married. I think my wife will agree, the first three or four months of our marriage was the worst

Deftones — B-Sides and Rarities

10/10 After some unfortunately severe complications stalled the recording of their fifth album, Deftones decided to compile most of their rare and unreleased tracks into one collection. In related news, a collection of unreleased songs by the Deftones is better than an album of new material from almost anyone.During my college DJ years, I often

Deftones — Deftones

8/10 Deftones is a good album from a great band.  This means it’s better than a whole lot of music. But this also means it’s a disappointment. Deftones found greatness in their third album, White Pony. They fully fleshed out their sound with an experimental, unpredictable edge, and created an entirely new world of sound.

Nevermind, I Guess Lebron is Okay

When I was a kid, I hated Michael Jordan. The New York Knicks were my favorite NBA team for obvious reasons, and every summer, in the Eastern Conference Championships, Jordan would lead his Bulls to victory against them. This drove me nuts. When Jordan came out of retirement, after already winning three championships with the

Deftones — White Pony

10/10 A dim light flickering in the trunk of a car speeding along the highway. Electrical currents flowing through a bathtub in the middle of the night. Someone so full of themselves, they are literally leaking out. Violent lunar romance. Deftones add DJ Frank Delgado to their lineup on White Pony, and go from a

Deftones — Around the Fur

9/10 From Around the Fur‘s album-opening drum-fill, Deftones suddenly launch from decent band to very, very good band. Around the Fur is an alt-metal album(or hard rock, whatever you want to call it) not that far out of the box, and yet it feel light years ahead of everything else around it, like a star

Deftones — Adrenaline

6/10 Deftones are one of the most exciting bands of the last twenty years, but their debut, Adrenaline, shows few signs of their coming greatness. Vocalist, Chino Moreno, is still finding his voice, and the near-rapping rhythms he settles for grow tiresome after a while. Likewise, guitarist Steph Carpenter plays some pretty cool riffs, but

Deep Forest — Deep Forest

7/10 Deep Forest had a decent idea for their debut album: combine field recordings of tribal chants and songs with early 90’s dance music.  The execution was also decent.  Deep Forest isn’t outstanding, but it gets the job done. It has one transcendent song, however, that spawned something incredible: “Sweet Lullaby” is one of the

Death Cab for Cutie — Plans

5/10 I can’t think of a more exciting time in my life than the first three months of 2006. For once I had unlimited options, nothing standing in my way, an almost unlimited pool of optimism, and a mysterious but wonderful sense of anticipation. I felt like I was floating freely in an alien sea

Dead Poetic — Vices

9/10 I feel sorry for Dead Poetic’s swansong, Vices.  My own first experience with it is a pretty good representation of what happened to the album after it was released.  The fall of 2006 had me in a situation where I felt more out of sorts than any time in my life.  I got engaged,