Ummmmm . . . . Horseshit.
As to the rest of your post, we’ve established this is “mood music”. IMO it fails in creating the mood it intends. You think it doesn’t. Fair enough.
Ummmmm . . . . Horseshit.
As to the rest of your post, we’ve established this is “mood music”. IMO it fails in creating the mood it intends. You think it doesn’t. Fair enough.
The reviews I read of it didn't sound like the album I was listening to which I just put down to not have ears tuned to this genre.Inspired and not a little shamed by the reviews of @The Black Shed and @mrbelfry who both found this to their liking (I think, wiht mrbelfry it can be hard to tell) I felt obliged to give this another listen. What I heard was really mostly still just noise although around the middle few trackes there was asense of slmething more melodic trying to worm it's way out- or in. The closers though were back to noise and it felt almost wilfully hard to listen to.
I've read many references to these being shoegaze which I don't really get from this. In fact any looking at my feet here would be to see if my toes were curling.
We mustn't forget though that these are album of the year winnners. To be fair it's possibly a little easier to win the accolade on Bluemoon given the very widespread of albums selected. But a very quick bit of research shows it getting a number 14 in the Guardian's albums of 2025 athough it failed to register in Mojo and Uncuts top 50 and 80 respectively.
This is what the Guardian said...
This was the US alt-metallers’ first album back after serendipitously getting a huge new following via TikTok, particularly for their sweeter, shoegazier material. But rather than court that audience by cynically remaking Sextape 11 times over, they instead created a balletic cyborg of a record. The riffs could put a dent in concrete masonry, but the groove-metal rhythms are light-footed and, as ever, vocalist Chino Moreno sets out even wider tonal possibilities. It’s as if waves of pain and relief pass across his spirit as he goes from dry croaks to thunderous denouncements to blissful clean singing.
No, I still don't get it and did listen to their "top tracks" on spotify to see if I was missing anything. Up to now know although I don't think I've heard Sextape.
Anyway enough, I'm killing time before the football. This is a noisy mess in the main. 5
Change the theme to songs of farewell anyone?
Maer like, del amitri - the last to know.For those of us still in denial, this works rather well...
Gin Blossoms - Till I Hear From You
Maer like, del amitri - the last to know.
Yes in mine too. He doesn't say it in words, but that blue minor tone reveals the depths of that inner gut feeling.Haha very true!
Though the sadness in my suggestion is the protagonist knows it's true really
:-(
Yes in mine too. He doesn't say it in words, but that blue minor tone reveals the depths of that inner gut feeling.
Yea anonymous, PM the choice. Sticking with bbq, the bye-bye was a joke.@Coatigan is the playlist an anonymous guessing one and are we doing BBQ or Bye Bye Bye ?
Yea anonymous, PM the choice. Sticking with bbq, the bye-bye was a joke.
But bonus points if you post a song here that covers both. Adios Sausage!
It’s 3:22 am here and I am prepping for my colonoscopy. Also, I listened to this record a few days ago. The joy level on both remain neck-and-neck. That said, this IS better than Sleep Token. The nice way to say it is that it fails in its mission to make me feel how it wants me to. 3/10.
Seconded - hope it’s not too much of a pain in the ass!Hope the procedures goes as well as those kind of things can.
This made me laugh, especially the telegraph poles part.The Deftones has led to some interesting discussion. I have enjoyed the double act of Foggy's militancy combined with Rob's more centrist apporach. One sits in party headquarters issuing reasonable press releases whilst the other dons a balaclava and is busy blowing up telegraph poles.
Ultimately I think the Deftones are a band where I get why other people get them, without really being there myself. I think there's more interesting stuff happening here than initially meets the eye and I don't doubt it's very intentional and to my mind quite well screwed together. However there's a bit of an outside looking in feeling for me.
I was going to give it 7 but then autoplay inflicted on me their version of Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want, which confirmed my deeply held prejudice that most Americans, even some of their ardent fans there, don't really get The Smiths. So now it's getting 6.5/10