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Alternative PressSaturday Night Wrist proves yet again that Deftones have a corner on the transcendental-metal market. [Dec 2006, p.192]
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If you’ve even the slightest interest in ‘heavy’ music, you simply must make Saturday Night Wrist an integral part of your record collection.
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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.
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Wrist is yet another excellent record from mainstream hard rock's only real hope.
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Entertainment WeeklyBoasts some of the Deftones' best out-and-out metal tunes to date. [3 Nov 2006, p.76]
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Features the kind of envelope-pushing fans have come to expect.
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The New York TimesAfter 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]
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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.
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The songwriting never quite comes together, but this is a metal record that gets by as much on sonic tricks as monster riffs.
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New Musical Express (NME)['Wrist'] sees [Deftones] continue to explore that hazy hinterland, where The Smiths' sensitivity and Sepultura's sledgehammer riffs overlap. [28 Oct 2006, p.35]
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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.
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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!"
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BillboardFor most of "Saturday Night Wrist," Deftones contentedly let their instruments wander, inventing a meandering soundscape that broods in near darkness. [4 Nov 2006]
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UncutA record that feels massive without tipping into bombast. [Nov 2006, p.106]
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SpinA sideways step in the right direction. [Nov 2006, p.97]
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BlenderThe Deftones' fifth album turns the dial to "statesmen." [Dec 2006, p.172]
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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.
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Q MagazineThere's little of the fire and invention that characterised 2000's White Pony. [Nov 2006, p.140]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 129 out of 139
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Mixed: 8 out of 139
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Negative: 2 out of 139
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ColinDNov 1, 2006Truely a amazing work of artistic structure and brilliance. This entire record is playing at my funeral when my time is done.
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Feb 1, 2015
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Jun 19, 2023