Deftones Koi No Yokan

2012, KOI NO YOKAN works the way good records used to; each song carries you a little further away from your bad day until finally, you've been transported to a place that feels a whole lot better than where you started. There's also a newfound sense of purpose that makes Deftones' seventh album stand out. The tangle of Stephen Carpenter's woozy, undulating guitar work and Moreno's soaring then secretive vocal style is the bittersweet dynamic behind each of Deftones' records, including KOI NO YOKAN. The friction drives the music as much as it does the players, though it doesn't always make life easy for childhood friends Carpenter and Moreno. There's an abundance of ideas, sounds, and shapes within a Deftones album, all of which leaves you sated and post-climactically exhausted. Deftones have created a career-defining album named KOI NO YOKAN.