DEFTONES EROS ART CRACK
According to music blog Crack in the Road, this is not Jai Paul's debut album proper - but it certainly is a bit special, and shows great promise. Speaking of long-awaited debuts by experimental singers/beatsmiths, London's Jai Paul, signed to XL several years ago but still without a debut album, this week dropped a beat tape on Bandcamp that is currently blowing minds from Artrocker to the Quietus. The first track to be revealed is Rat, alongside a delightfully weird album promo. Pittsburgh's Wise Blood has finally got his debut album ready to go - id is co-produced by Nicholas Vernhes, who has also worked with Black Dice, Animal Collective and Dirty Projectors. The Progression is pretty epic, but for our money it's the vocal-led Thinkin' Bout, from the B-side, which wins the toss. Xxxy's new single is out today - the RinseFM favourite has debuted both tracks from the new 12" on his Soundcloud page. The track also features dancehall artist Popcaan. Dre Skull is a collaborator of Snoop Lion and Major Lazer among others. Purity Ring's Megan James has collaborated with dancehall producer Dre Skull on a new track, First Time. The band have unveiled one more track from the new record, Don't Swallow The Cap. NEW MUSIC: THE NATIONAL, DRE SKULL & MEGAN JAMES, XXXY, WISE BLOOD, JAI PAUL, JD TWITCHįans of complex, melancholy indie rock will be thrilled to hear that The National's fifth full-length album, Trouble Will Find Me, will be released on 21 May through 4AD. His last work with Deftones, an album tentatively titled Eros, remains as yet unreleased. He knew that he was very loved and never alone." Cheng was a poet as well as a bassist, releasing a spoken word album in 2000. I got to work with Deftones on Around the Fur and he was a slice of Zen I welcomed every day." Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine meanwhile remembered Cheng as "a very sweet and talented guy."Ī statement signed by Cheng's mother and Deftones frontman Chino Moreno stated: "He fought the good fight. You can check out more awesome videos like this at Maniacs’ YouTube page.Members of the rock fraternity paid tribute to their friend, with producer Matt Bayles summarising the plethora of tributes via Twitter by saying: " Reading the love for Chi Cheng on social media justifies the Internet for me.
There’s a lot of emotion…and the music goes through kind of a roller coaster of emotion as well, so it kind of fits.” The eyes, they have this kind of hopeful look, but also kind of a sad look. It’s way different from anything we’ve done recently. I don’t know if that inspired those eyes at all, but when I saw them, I was like, YES. “I think the only idea I get from it was doing something a little more lo-fi, almost even punk-looking. “It has this iconic kind of feel to it - kind of lo-fi-ish, you know what I mean?” says Chino. So I thought, Why don’t we take this artwork and use water as the tool to make it?”Ĭallum asks Chino how he’d describe the feeling of the artwork without being able to show them the cover itself. And then, seeing the artwork of the eyes, instantly I pictured them being backlit. It kind of reminded me of bubbling, flowing water or something.
“Especially just listening to ‘Ohms’ as the first single, I was taken by the swelling guitar and drums. “I was presented with Ohms and asked, ‘What can you create that’s inspired by this record?'” says Callum. In a video by our brothers at Australian metal site Maniacs, Callum, Chino, and Deftones creative director Frank Maddocks discuss how Callum created a unique piece of illuminated artwork, using the inspiration he got from the music and cover of Ohms. The album sleeve’s iconic eyes are sure to inspire fans and artists for generations to come - but what happens when an artist is specifically given that cover and told to create something inspired by it? That’s exactly what Australian visual artist Callum Preston was tasked with doing now, you can watch a video interview in which Callum and Deftones frontman Chino Moreno discuss Ohms‘ artistic inspiration and Callum’s process. Earlier this year, Deftones continued their saga of dreamy artistic progression with Ohms, an album whose very cover art gives off a sense of outsider mystery.