87/100 across nineteen reviews, one of the year’s firmest consensuses: with private music, Deftones confirm they remain the most imitated and least equalled band in alternative metal. Thirty years after Adrenaline, Chino Moreno and co. still hold that impossible balance between crushing heaviness and weightless shoegaze beauty.
What the press hails with one voice is the coherence of a vision: no disavowal, no chasing trends, just that unique grain, violent and caressing at once. One more record atop a flawless discography. Rating: 8.5.
