Koi No Yokan
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CRITIC REVIEWS
100
They still deliver their challenging music with effortless ease.
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1mo
90
This fit and lean version of Deftones have turned negativity into vibrant positivity and channelled it into their cohesive and textured seventh full-length, Koi No Yokan – a record that will forever sit high upon Deftones’ burgeoning list of impressive achievements
10y
90
A stomach-turning twist through corridors of riffs, around every corner another punishing progression or triumphant refrain.
10y
88
A remarkably consistent effort from the band that triumphs without altering its style.
83
Their seventh album continues where 2010's Diamond Eyes left off, bonding streamlined mosh-pit daggers with floaty space-station distress calls.
80
With Koi No Yokan the band have not only delivered on their promises, but exceeded them so, whilst remaining one of the most engaging but remarkable heavy bands of our times.
4mo
80
What "Koi No Yokan" lacks in evolution, the DEFTONES compensate by engineering a heady, spiraling and detailed redux.
80
Storming seventh album from the Sacramento quintet.
80
Sacramento heroes mix the shit-kicking with the sublime.
80
Taken as both a culmination and a sign of more good things to come, it further solidifies the band's status as far and away the most long-lasting and consistent act of the maligned subgenre from which they came.
80
Truth-be-told, Koi No Yokan is all the more remarkable for feeling like a vibrant recombination of the Sacramento veterans' defining elements rather than a retread of past glories.
80
It’s an adventurous, seductive and plush exploration of the depths of progressive and popular metal.
10y
80
It seems the Deftones are getting soft—in a good way.
10y
80
In their continued exploration of the intersection of heaviness and harmony, Koi No Yokan finds the band returning with a warm, dreamy sound that feels more like heavy dream pop or shoegaze than light metal.
10y
80
It’s a shotgun blast of cranked guitars, bruising hardcore and canyon-sized choruses, and it’s mesmerising.
10y
75
Koi No Yokan could be both their most traditionally metal and their most melodic record to date.
10y
70
It does serve as an excellent point of entry for a new generation of fans, while reminding the complacent rest of us how the character of Sacramento’s finest continues to endure.
70
There’s definitely something welcoming about Koi No Yokan‘s comparative purity, in the band’s understanding of how little they need.
10y
65
As long as the Deftones continue to create melodies this catchy and express feelings this real, they deserve to be heard.
60
Deftones make a lighter and more ethereal left turn with their latest album, much like they did with Saturday Night Wrist in 2006, but the end result is nowhere near as experimental or expansive, unfortunately. Though much of the songwriting is enjoyable here, for this most part, this album feels like Deftones are playing it a little safe.
60
When you listen the new album, everything's there already. Laid out on a plate there's no sense of interpretation, what you hear is what you get.
10y
In all honesty, I wish people would talk about this album the some way they talk about Around The Fur or White Pony, as it's one of the most underrated albums in the groups discography. This album is full of punches, with some songs being more direct in it's attacks while some tracks go for the heart. It's an album that sounds mystical, other-worldly, and ethereal while still sounds dark, distorted and dingy. It's a great album, with twisting musical passages and many different moods. The group ... read more
REVIEW REPOST #014. I repost my old reviews, which got no attention, with updated thoughts. Posted this review a year ago but I'm posting it again.
This album took a while to grow on me. But once it grew, IT GREW.
And yeah, now it's one of the most beautiful albums I've ever heard. Just an absolute masterpiece that DOESN'T get old, and has the most fantastic of riffs, vocals, and song ideas ever. The album also runs incredibly, with every track transitioning onto the previous one.
The ... read more
oh my god guys its the untranslatable japanese phrase and the infity room and the vaguely sexual song!!! My God Chino and the Deaf Tones are so fucking hot I want them to slam me into a pole and scream at me until I end up like John Lennon's son!
I feel like this is really good, but I dunno, it can get really repetitive at times too. I wish it was more weird, chaotic or scary sounding. I feel like this kind of album has been done better before. They should've leaned more into their shoegaze side. Better yet, just make a shoegaze album already. They'd be better at it if Team Sleep is any indication.
Esto se siente como una noche bajo el cielo estrellado,teniendo como testigo a la luna,estás en medio de un banquete sexual intrincado y la locura te lleva a diferentes planos,no sabes cómo salir de allí;quieres ser eterno en medio de tanto amor endemoniado.
My favorite Deftones album alongside White Pony. It sounds great, feels great, the production is FENOMENAL and Rosemary is a complete masterpiece of a song
Favs: Swerve City, Leathers, Tempest, Entombed, Rosemary
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Track List
| 1 | Swerve City 2:44 | 94 |
| 2 | Romantic Dreams 4:38 | 90 |
| 3 | Leathers 4:08 | 93 |
| 4 | Poltergeist 3:31 | 92 |
| 5 | Entombed 4:59 | 97 |
| 6 | Graphic Nature 4:31 | 87 |
| 7 | Tempest 6:05 | 93 |
| 8 | Gauze 4:41 | 93 |
| 9 | Rosemary 6:53 | 96 |
| 10 | Goon Squad 5:39 | 90 |
| 11 | What Happened to You? 3:53 | 90 |
Total Length: 51 minutes
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Added on: November 9, 2012