Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist [Clean]

Primary Performer
Deftones
Album Title
Saturday Night Wrist [Clean]
Release Date
October 24, 2006 
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Review by Thom Jurek
Three long years after The Deftones issued their self-titled album to puzzling reviews, the Sacramento quintet is back with Saturday Night Wrist, a recording that will further muddy the waters of categorization and expectation about who they are and what they're trying to do. After the breakthrough metallic-sounding Around The Fur, the band confounded critics and fans alike with the much softer and atmospherically adventurous White Pony. In 2003 they further transgressed the borderlines of all things boxed and tied with their self-titled album, which seemed to walk the line between rockist and "sensitive." But it's Saturday Night Wrist that fills out the portrait, bleeding though textures from one rock & roll type to another and coming up with something else altogether yet it's definitively "Deftones." The album began with a question and a small conflict in deciding on a producer. Read More...