Word: songfulness
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...Cherry Waves” is as juicy as it sounds and is the high point of the album. The song itself is built on a simple, dreamy guitar intro that builds with Moreno’s voice before opening up into distorted guitar chords and serene, echoing vocals...
...caustic screech dominating “Rapture.” In an era when the “screamo” genre is pervasive in loud rock music, the Deftones don’t do well in distinguishing themselves from the pack: Moreno takes a fairly well arranged guitar song and destroys it with the most painful and unartistic screaming imaginable. The track is a huge let-down, but it by no means defines the album...
Later, “Xerces” is a laid back, journey-into-outer-space-type song. With the simple beat of the song and lazy piano chords in the verse, you can almost picture Moreno lifting off the ground as his voice echoes through the track. He even announces in the chorus, “I’ll be waving goodbye...
...hold on, because once again the trance is shattered by the Deftones trying to cling to their played-out metal roots, screaming incessantly in “Ratsiratsirats!” There is little to say about this song besides their need to either send it to Slipknot or graphically kill it in a trap...
...she’s English. In addition to calling out “Go on, I’m English / Try and deport me!” at the end of two verses on “Love Me or Hate Me,” she has an entire song devoted to her foreign-ness, “My England...