SATURDAY NIGHT WRIST - DEFTONES
For most of “Saturday Night Wrist,” Deftones contentedly let their instruments wander, inventing a meandering soundscape that broods in near darkness. The instrumental “Interlude” personifies the record: soothing yet disquieting, and it’s curiously anchored with animated drumming by Abe Cunningham. Lead single “Hole in the Earth” comes off like a more muscular Coldplay, whereas “FM” could be Incubus immersed in chaos. Chino Moreno’s vocals sometimes mimic Bono and Robert Smith, before he descends into screaming for the harried “Rats,” which finally kicks up the album’s tempo eight tracks into the game. “Pink Cellphone” makes you think its sultry female spoken-word piece is leading toward some kind of enlightenment, until she launches into a bizarre sexual rambling that can’t be repeated here. Billboard
