Deftones - private music (Album Thread)

[gAbe]

It's definitely not just those two, the whole album suffers from this. Fuck, I've even heard distorting ride cymbals on Departing the Body, which is super bizarre. I've never heard clipping ride cymbals in any other rock adjacent album in my life, which is telling. Like some other user said around here, the songs are mad fatiguing to listen to, especially in one sitting despite how concise the album is.

Did Nick really produce this? Did fucking Rich Costey, of all people, really mix this? He was in charge of mixing instructions for Koi, so that's definitely a disappointment. Howie Weinberg mastered it, and so did he on Gore and Ohms too, so the mastering is probably not at fault. I wish this fucking trend went away. It makes everything sound toothless.

Long time lurker here, just created an account to reply to this because I felt obliged. There is no clipping on the ride in departing the body. That is a sequencer/drum machine overlay. If you have decent headphones or speakers you should be able to tell. It's even panned differently, the ride is centre right and the sequencer is centre left.
I agree that (as is the case with most of Nick's records), there is too much compression, but I also think the actual mixing and sonics/tones on this album are the best of the three Nick albums. 

[Crest_Lover$]

Their all afraid of me, but I know you're not them

[tongues_of_flame]

The album is growing on me more and more, such weird details. Songs that at first several listens are unremarkable, reveal themselves... Departing the body springs to mind

I really think of Royal and CMND/CTRL as the sonic template for the album... a buzzing overdriven guitar with Chino and Frank getting creative on top of it.


Infinite Source and MOTM are still the standouts, don't like ITAYATT at all and don't mind a heartfelt Deftones but take my diamond line is cringe and feels like reaching for prom dance audiences.

It's a trip of an album

agreed. i've been trying not to over-listen because i find that things stand out to me the more i'm listening to all of the tones' material at once vs. just one album, and giving myself a break every now and then lets me continue to listen with (relatively) new, open ears.

i agree that it musically draws from DE + KNY (souvenir, especially its choruses, reminds me of royal, like you mentioned) but cXz and ITAYATT really remind me of SNW in particular. souvenir and departing the body also remind me of ohms.

i feel like gore had a very stoner-y surf sound to it (acid hologram in particular has been a big favorite of mine for the past few months because of that intro riff) that got more ambient and audibly deep with ohms (i'm thinking of the guitar in radiant city and the intro to headless specifically) while this album brought back the immediacy/blood-pumping-factor that DE and KNY had.

man, just writing this text out made me want to listen to like 5 different songs. time to do that