Went to Iceland for the weekend and the album really suits it. Glad it's part of the memory.

And the repetitive thing: I think KNY is a lot more varied than ST or DE - there's a lot more texture to it as well. Their songs do have a tendency to be pretty rigidly structured but KNY feels a little 'looser' in this regard. Maybe not more than SNW, but it's still noticeable. I don't feel like I've exhausted it yet. Though after DE I could just be cautious about fucking killing it with my greedy ears!

Goon Squad has definitely grown on me too. It seemed a little jarring at first.

After a week and a half with it. Im gonna say 9/10.
Gauze, Poltergeist, What Happened to You? are my favourites.
Hope they come to Ottawa one day :/

am i trippin or does the ending of rosemary sound like just kidding???... ever since i heard it... it sounded to me like Team Sleep... and Today After Hearing Just Kidding... It sounds just like it... though I say Just Kidding sounds more like a remix....


nevermind im high.....lol

I get ATF vibes on this album. Not sure why.

this album is so fucking awesome

Quote from: Rally Sweat on Nov 20, 2012, 08:48 PMAnd the repetitive thing: I think KNY is a lot more varied than ST

Can't really agree with that with Minerva, Deathblow, Lucky You and AOAUI, which all had fewer shared traits with what had gone before. The only tracks that stand out to me on KNY as 'different' are Romantic Dreams and Entombed. The rest is pretty standard, and even something like Tempest or Goon Squad just essentially have a bit of an intro experiment. Beyond that the tracks are more standard. I like it all, no complaints, but none of the rest of KNY strikes me as particularly 'wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiild' or outside of a comfort zone like some of the stuff on every post-WP album other than this one. I think KNY just follows DE very closely, the progression feels minimal. I don't really mind that because I thought they needed consistency with KNY above anything else to prove that DE wasn't a one off.

Don't know how many people watched theneedledrop review, but whilst I disagreed with a lot of it, I thought Fantano was right in criticising the caricatured riffing and the general sense of underdevelopment (i.e. Romantic Dreams' structuring). KNY is a very safe album, you just have to not care that they played it that way.

when it comes to some observations i read ...Deftones cant win for losing

Quote from: Bergerac on Nov 21, 2012, 05:13 AM

Quote from: Rally Sweat on Nov 20, 2012, 08:48 PMAnd the repetitive thing: I think KNY is a lot more varied than ST

...none of the rest of KNY strikes me as particularly 'wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiild' or outside of a comfort zone like some of the stuff on every post-WP album other than this one. I think KNY just follows DE very closely, the progression feels minimal.

Absolutely, I think this is key.  Some people are making it out to be like this album is sooooo different...  Have you not been listening the past 13 years?  Everything after ATF was completely different from the album before it, yet this really feels like DE pt2.  It's not bad, I'm not saying that, but I am agreeing that it is a VERY safe album by Deftones standards.

I don't think this album was meant to be experimental i think they used what they learned from the previous experimental albums to refine their sound to what they wanted,their showing they've learnt from previous experience and Chino says he thinks this is their best album so they obviously found the sound they wanted.

http://acharts.us/album/74439

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Thats cool it's doing well over here 8th is good for a band like that these days,did they not even chart in the US?

Still counting i gues?  (one weak)

is there a place where we can know about the sales?

I haven't seen it on any album charts yet. Maybe the zero promotion thing isn't really working out for them sales wise.

DEFTONES' seventh studio album, "Koi No Yokan", sold 65,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 11 on The Billboard 200 chart. The CD arrived in stores on November 13 via Reprise.

"Koi No Yokan" follows up 2010's "Diamond Eyes", which opened with 62,000 units to debut at No. 6.

DEFTONES' 2006 album, "Saturday Night Wrist", registered a first-week tally of 76,000 to enter the chart at No. 10.


Taken from Blabbermouth.net

This happens when u don't promote ur shit the right way... FU WB!!!

Sold more than DE without the promotion. Not bad. Which means 2 maybe 3 videos. I wonder what other two songs they'll pick? well we still haven't seen the one so three may be pushing it.

Quote from: chuckles on Nov 21, 2012, 01:49 PM
This happens when u don't promote ur shit the right way... FU WB!!!

I don't understand what you are so mad about 65,000 in 2012 considering the state of the music business is pretty good.

Quote from: xLhabiax on Nov 21, 2012, 02:02 PM

Quote from: chuckles on Nov 21, 2012, 01:49 PM
This happens when u don't promote ur shit the right way... FU WB!!!

I don't understand what you are so mad about 65,000 in 2012 considering the state of the music business is pretty good.

I'm not mad about it.. I was just saying.. Promotion wise.. They suck.. Cruda realidad..

Quote from: nineteen on Nov 21, 2012, 03:53 AM
I get ATF vibes on this album. Not sure why.

You're not the only one...for me Poltergeist, Goon Squad, Gauze, and the way he sings on WHTY...