I have a vision of Chino Moreno sitting in his cold apartment listening to The Smiths and masturbating into a bucket of his own tears. He probably doesn't do that every day, but his whimpering voice would imply so.
White Pony was their third album and the first with DJ and keyboardist Frank Delgado as a full time member, and his added textures and psychedelic soundscapes helped make this their best album and most eclectic and atmospheric yet. The fact that during the White Pony tour they made their entrance to the Twin Peaks soundtrack really says it all. They would not release an album nearly as good until 2010's Diamond Eyes, but that's another story.
Lotsa high points on this record so it was hard to choose with songs to post. At the end I went with the mercurial Digital Bath, the acoustic triphop-y oddity Teenager (originally written for Moreno and Delgado's side project Team Sleep) and what is still ten years Deftones' best song: Knife Prty.
The reason is of course the eye-popping guest vocals from Rodleen Getsic which someone somewhere (I love being specific) described as sounding like an angel having an orgasm. That's perfect, I wish I'd thought of that. The best I could come up with was "Pink Floyd's The Great Gig In The Sky shitting itself whilst in detox".
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2 comments:
Awesome opening paragraph.
Digital Bath is a damn good song. And the word here is "atmosphere".
The only thing I have with Deftones is their drummer. I think he is too simple, sometimes a little boring. But, anyway, a great band and a great album.
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