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Saturday Night Wrist

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 18 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 55 votes
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Album Info
Label: Maverick
Release Date: 31 October 2006
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Alternative, Rock, Metal
Summary
Bob Erzin (Jane's Addiction) produced the alt-metal band's fifth album. System Of A Down vocalist Serj Tankian guests.
Also By This Artist: Deftones White Pony
Also On The Web: Deftones @ MySpace Official Artist Site
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Alternative Press
Saturday Night Wrist proves yet again that Deftones have a corner on the transcendental-metal market. [Dec 2006, p.192]
Drowned In Sound
If you’ve even the slightest interest in ‘heavy’ music, you simply must make Saturday Night Wrist an integral part of your record collection.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club)
The album is mostly a heady, atmospheric, willfully too-difficult-for-radio wash of sound that, save for a handful of tracks, stretches out and explores Deftones' creative limits more than ever before.
Read Full Review >NOW Magazine
Wrist is yet another excellent record from mainstream hard rock's only real hope.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly
Boasts some of the Deftones' best out-and-out metal tunes to date. [3 Nov 2006, p.76]
The New York Times
After a long apprenticeship, Deftones have started to sound like their own band: one that seesaws between agonized crooning and hard-rock attack, within songs as well as through albums. [30 Oct 2006]
PopMatters
Their most well-rounded, focused record yet, one that comes scarily close to besting White Pony while heading in a slightly different direction at the same time.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone
The songwriting never quite comes together, but this is a metal record that gets by as much on sonic tricks as monster riffs.
Read Full Review >New Musical Express
['Wrist'] sees [Deftones] continue to explore that hazy hinterland, where The Smiths' sensitivity and Sepultura's sledgehammer riffs overlap. [28 Oct 2006, p.35]
All Music Guide
Ultimately, Saturday Night Wrist is satisfying, though it may take a few listens given all the changes in individual cuts that tend to blur together the first time or two through.
Read Full Review >cokemachineglow
Saturday Night Wrist continues the Deftones’ sad trend, another album of scattered transcendent moments in a field of attention-getting parlour tricks, still eagerly tugging at the listener’s sleeve to say, "Listen to this sound we created!"
Read Full Review >Blender
The Deftones' fifth album turns the dial to "statesmen." [Dec 2006, p.172]
Spin
A sideways step in the right direction. [Nov 2006, p.97]
Uncut
A record that feels massive without tipping into bombast. [Nov 2006, p.106]
Billboard
For most of "Saturday Night Wrist," Deftones contentedly let their instruments wander, inventing a meandering soundscape that broods in near darkness. [4 Nov 2006]
Stylus Magazine
When the Deftones are successful, they seem to slow down time, expanding on floating moments of doubt and mystery. When they’re not busy getting bogged down in all those mini-moments, dragging the album through dread patches of sluggishness that is.
Read Full Review >Q Magazine
There's little of the fire and invention that characterised 2000's White Pony. [Nov 2006, p.140]
What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 8.5 (out of 10) based on 55 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Ben M gave it a0:
Horrible,I just hated the way he sang the songs.I can't believe people can listen to this shit.It wasn't even rock.Awful.
Rob T gave it a9:
I find this to be about on par with "Deftones", and I probably enjoy it more than White Pony. It's a good release, with some real standout moments. One thing that irks me is Delgado's contributions being way more overt and kinda cheesy in parts... I prefer his usual fare of creating tension in the background subtly.
D G. gave it a9:
Cohesive and beautifully produced, a big improvement over that last self-titled record. Maybe not as vital as 'White Pony', but nearly every song on here is perfect (though I have a hard time listening through the collab with Annie).
Hex G. gave it a6:
The album feels a bit lackluster when compared with their previous two albums (Self Titled and White Pony). As good as "Hole In The Earth" and "Beware The Water" are, songs like "Mein" and "Pink Cellphone" let the album down a small bit.
Morgan P. gave it a5:
Chino does not need to be AUTO TUNED!!!!! they did a terrible job auto tuning it and its terribly obvious!
C L gave it an8:
Much, much tighter than their last experimental album (which had some wonderful moments, but was unfocused). "Hole in the Earth" has been deemed extremely heavy but I've seen Brit Rock bands deliver just as much noise - which is convenient considering Chino takes on Bono's voice. "Rapture" is a by-the-numbers metal song (save for a brief moment in ambience). "Beware" is a beautiful anthem complete with layers of cricket noise, and "Cherry Waves" finds the band trying to sing in the middle of violent storm in the middle of the lonely ocean. "Mein" proves Chino had Radiohead's song "Where I End and You Begin" on repeat, and "Xerces" does plenty of mystified shoegazing. Really disjointed, but furthering Deftones's range with a large handful of fantastic moments.
John A. gave it a10:
First let me say I am a real person, not a robot, and I don't work for a record label. I honestly this is as close to perfection as you can get. Pink Cellphone goes hard in the paint.
