team sleep

Team Sleep, the side project of Deftones' Chino Moreno, have reunited to release the follow-up to their 2005 self-titled debut LP. While the band will spend the fall recording the impending record, they have posted a brief teaser containing snippets of two new songs, titled “No” and “Dreamland,” which you can check out below, along with an official […]

Deftones Koi No Yokan This review originally ran in AP 293. “Swerve City,” the opening track on Deftones' seventh album, is a fine distillation of the band’s essence, where vocalist Chino Moreno’s idiosyncratic pillow-talk approach to melody is buttressed by Stephen Carpenter’s alternating majestic/ugly riffing. Like much of Koi No Yokam, the song is essentially […]

††† EP † No one who has taken the time to listen to Deftones would ever suggest vocalist Chino Moreno is a man who likes to exist solely in one box. His main band’s catalog shows more ambition and experimentation than a hundred metalcore bands. He admirably explored more electronic-oriented territory with Team Sleep, and […]