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Deftones: Koi No Yokan

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Label: Reprise Records
Released: 2012.11.12
Time:
 51:50
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Nick Raskulinecz
Rating: *****..... (5/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: deftones.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Swerve City (A.Cunningham/S.Carpenter/F.Delgado/Ch.Moreno/S.Vega) - 2:44
[2] Romantic Dreams (A.Cunningham/S.Carpenter/F.Delgado/Ch.Moreno/S.Vega) - 4:38
[3] Leathers (A.Cunningham/S.Carpenter/F.Delgado/Ch.Moreno/S.Vega) - 4:08
[4] Poltergeist (A.Cunningham/S.Carpenter/F.Delgado/Ch.Moreno/S.Vega) - 3:31
[5] Entombed (A.Cunningham/S.Carpenter/F.Delgado/Ch.Moreno/S.Vega) - 4:59
[6] Graphic Nature (A.Cunningham/S.Carpenter/F.Delgado/Ch.Moreno/S.Vega) - 4:31
[7] Tempest (A.Cunningham/S.Carpenter/F.Delgado/Ch.Moreno/S.Vega) - 6:05
[8] Gauze (A.Cunningham/S.Carpenter/F.Delgado/Ch.Moreno/S.Vega) - 4:41
[9] Rosemary (A.Cunningham/S.Carpenter/F.Delgado/Ch.Moreno/S.Vega) - 6:53
[10] Goon Squad (A.Cunningham/S.Carpenter/F.Delgado/Ch.Moreno/S.Vega) - 5:40
[11] What Happened to You? (A.Cunningham/S.Carpenter/F.Delgado/Ch.Moreno/S.Vega) - 3:53

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Abe Cunningham - Drums
Stephen Carpenter - Guitar
Frank Delgado - Samples, Keyboards
Chino Moreno - Vocals, Guitar
Sergio Vega - Bass

Nick Raskulinecz - Producer
Matt Hyde - Producer, Engineering
Steve Olmon - Engineering
Rich Costey - Mixing
Eric Isip - Mixing
Ted Jensen - Mastering
Chris Kasych - Protools Mix Engineering
Frank Maddocks - Art Direction, Package Design
Futura - Photography
13Th Witness - Band Photograph

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Recorded 2012, Paramount Studios, Los Angeles; Ameraycan Studios, Encore Studios, North Hollywood.

This is the seventh studio album from US alt-rockers The Deftones. Koi No Yokan is the second album not to feature long-time bass player Chi Cheng, after his near-fatal car accident in 2008. Sergio Vega steps in to cover on bass.



Koi No Yokan is the seventh studio album by American alternative metal band Deftones. The album was released through Reprise Records on November 12, 2012, in the UK and November 13, 2012, in the United States.[4][5] The album was met with positive reception from professional critics on release. Band frontman Chino Moreno characterized the album as "dynamic" with a full range of sound, noting that more contributions were made to the album from bassist Sergio Vega compared to their previous record, Diamond Eyes.[6] Koi No Yokan marks the second album not to feature long-time bass player Chi Cheng, who continues to slowly recover from a near-fatal car accident in 2008. The CD for this album was released on November 14, 2012 in Japan under the title 恋の予感 (Koi no Yokan), which means "Premonition Of Love". On September 19, 2012, the band released the song "Leathers" as a promotional single via a free download on their website. On October 8, 2012, "Leathers" was released as the album's first single. "Leathers" was also released as a limited edition cas-single with "Rosemary" as its B-side. On October 3, 2012, the song, "Tempest", premiered on PureVolume for streaming. "Tempest" was released as a single on October 9, 2012. The aggregate review site Metacritic assigned an average score of 86 to the album based on 18 reviews, indicating "Universal Acclaim". With this score Koi No Yokan was among the eight best reviewed albums of 2012.



When Robert Smith died, the remaining members of The Cure did the only thing they could – detuned their instruments, employed a screaming banshee as their frontman and called themselves Deftones. OK, that never happened. But listening to the band the Sacramento quintet have evolved into since forming in 1988, it’s not such a crazy idea, such is their fondness for new wave atmos, disarming melodies and sadistic, low-slung riffs. Their seventh album ‘Koi No Yokan’ – named after a Japanese proverb meaning “promise of love” – comes 17 years after the powering assault of their debut, ‘Adrenaline’. It sees them rediscover the venomous snarl of their early years after 2010’s slightly limp ‘Diamond Eyes’, which the band made as they struggled to come to terms with a car accident that left bassist Chi Cheng in a coma. The reflection and experimentation of that record remains, but they sound more bloodthirsty this time around.

From the start, Deftones’ songwriting nous is obvious on ‘Koi No Yokan’, even if it isn’t the return to the melancholic sound or sublime character of their 2000 masterpiece ‘White Pony’ that people have been touting it as. Opener ‘Swerve City’ is every bit the dangerous change of direction its title suggests, freewheeling between sludgy mounds of guitar and airy melodies while singer Chino Moreno’s vocals writhe at its centre. The 39-year-old’s lyrics remain crucial to Deftones, providing lightness in contrast to the blunt force trauma of Stephen Carpenter’s dark guitar shreds. “Time to let everything inside show”, he implores on ‘Leathers’, the album’s thundering centrepiece. “Wear your insides on your outsides”. So guttural are his screams, you sometimes wonder if he might be about to follow his advice literally.

It’s one of the band’s most consistent listens. No song reaches the sledgehammer brutality of 2003 tune ‘When Girls Telephone Boys’ or the ghostly tenderness of 2010’s ‘Sextape’, but they settle into a mid-paced groove early on that allows their sumptuous textures to breathe. By the time the chug of ‘Gauze’ stomps into view destroying everything in its past like a guitar-limbed Godzilla, you’ll be utterly transfixed.

A good measure of Deftones’ importance beyond the world of metal in 2012 is that some of the biggest bands in the world consider them the blueprint of how a band should evolve. Muse snuck a cover of their 1997 track ‘Headup’ into one of their European arena shows a few weeks back, while Biffy Clyro have modelled their career progression on the way Deftones grew more expansive with each record. Going on ‘Koi No Yokan’ it’s easy to see why they’re so revered, even as they enter their third decade. It’s a shotgun blast of cranked guitars, bruising hardcore and canyon-sized choruses, and it’s mesmerising.

Al Horner
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