Saturday Night Wrist proves yet again that Deftones have a corner on the transcendental-metal market.
If you’ve even the slightest interest in ‘heavy’ music, you simply must make Saturday Night Wrist an integral part of your record collection.
Wrist is yet another excellent record from mainstream hard rock’s only real hope.
Ultimately, Saturday Night Wrist is satisfying, though it may take a few listens given all the changes in individual cuts that tend to blur together the first time or two through.
Their most well-rounded, focused record yet, one that comes scarily close to besting White Pony while heading in a slightly different direction at the same time.
Saturday Night Wrist continues the Deftones’ sad trend, another album of scattered transcendent moments in a field of attention-getting parlour tricks, still eagerly tugging at the listener’s sleeve to say, “Listen to this sound we created!”
It's a sideways step in the right direction.
There's little of the fire and invention that characterised 2000's White Pony.
I wore a glow in the dark bracelet on Saturday night. But quickly I grew tired of just seeing it there and bit straight into it.
The taste was exquisite: hundreds of fireworks going off in my mouth all at once, storming their way to the back of my throat as I swallowed them all up. I felt my stomach was lit on fire by God itself: I was going to transcend. And I did! Free party meal!
Moral of the story: deftone
This is a refreshing turn for Deftones. It maintains the similar aesthetic they have been trapped in for years, but with a more diverse set of toys to play with. I enjoy Rapture a lot for this reason. It feels like an updates song from the "Around The Fur" era, but covered in muck. This is where things became interesting for me.
That being said, this album feels like it falls into the same issues as other more recent Deftones projects. They have some great songs, but don't really ... read more
I think we see the problem as to why this isn’t a 100/100
Favorite: Hole In The Earth
Least Favorite: Pink Cellphone
Hole in the Earth: 70
Rapture: 60
Beware: 80 ★
Cherry Waves: 90 ★
Mein: 80
U,U,D,D,L,R,L,R,A,B,Select,Start: 70
Xerces: 90 ★
Rats!Rats!Rats!: 70
Pink Cellphone: 30
Combat: 70
Kimdracula: 80 ★
Rivière: 80 ★
Average: 72,5 / 100
it provides so many different sounds and they all hit
timestamp rats!rats!rats! 2:39 IM TELLING YOU
1 | Hole in the Earth 4:09 | 95 |
2 | Rapture 3:25 | 82 |
3 | Beware 6:00 | 92 |
4 | Cherry Waves 5:17 | 96 |
5 | Mein 3:58 | 87 |
6 | U,U,D,D,L,R,L,R,A,B,Select,Start 4:12 | 82 |
7 | Xerces 3:41 | 91 |
8 | Rats!Rats!Rats! 4:00 | 84 |
9 | Pink Cellphone 5:04 | 41 |
10 | Combat 4:46 | 85 |
11 | Kimdracula 3:14 | 90 |
12 | Rivière 3:45 | 88 |