The singles, "Ohms" and "Genesis," are really the only tracks I can say made me feel something, "Genesis" has an incredibly Koi No Yokan reminiscent opening followed by a barreling riff that crashes through with one of Chino’s most aggressive vocal performances in a good while, before mellowing out into a more gentle wave of guitar. My reaction to this albums announcement was along the lines of “Cool, new Deftones, hope it’s good," to me it was just a nice little nostalgic bonus to all the other phenomenal albums released by beloved bands this year. I haven’t been a huge Deftones fan for at least a few years now, and while I do still adore much of their music, they’ve become more of a footnote in the evolution of my musical taste rather than a feature of it.
It’s more of me saying “ Deftones put out an album of subpar songs that fail because they’re so mild and soft.”Īnd by no means do I blame this on overhype syndrome, because we all know it’s easy for an album to be disappointing if you expected it to be the second coming of Christ, but I in all honesty wasn’t particularly excited for this album. I know that a band suddenly becoming less heavy shouldn’t be a fair thing to critique, because what matter is if the music is good or not, and maybe I am biased as my favourite Deftones records are their heaviest- Koi No Yokan and Diamond Eyes-but this isn’t a “ Deftones have gone soft” stinkpiece. So much of what is here I dare to call toothless. Much like their previous effort Gore it’s an album with a couple amazing tracks, bogged down by the rest of the tracklist just being.okay. Ohms is just an unimpressive and underwhelming album, nothing here is particularly exciting or really grabbed my attention. That is not inherent damnation against the album, but it sets the grounds for my primary issues with it.
Ohms is, in my opinion, Deftones most poppy and accessible work by far, as well as their most simplistic and straightforward.
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