Deftones: Around the Fur [MAVERICK]

Why you'll love it

Around the Fur went platinum and gave us "My Own Summer (Shove It)" and "Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)", two songs that still make a mosh pit and a slow dance break out in the same room. It's the bridge between Adrenaline and White Pony.

This edition

• Single LP, 10 tracks
• Maverick pressing of the 1997 album
• Includes "My Own Summer (Shove It)" and "Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)"

About the album

Perhaps it was their early, somewhat inaccurate association with the "nu-metal" movement, but it took a while for people to cotton on to the fact that Deftones roll pretty much toe-to-toe with Tool when it comes to pushing the boundaries of mainstream heavy music to its experimental extremes. Those people just weren't listening. Around the Fur, the Sacramento crew's bruising second album, was already stretching the quartet's mercurial sound into shoegaze, prog and goth-y new wave directions way back in 1997.

While still being monstrously, satisfyingly heavy, of course. But that's always been Deftones' secret: they deliver the cathartic battery you crave, but they reliably do it with a dash of artful strangeness, exemplified by Chino Moreno's effects-laden vocal stylings. After this came an even greater level-up in the form of 2000's White Pony, but the seeds were already being sown here.

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Tracklist

Listen

On Maverick, first out in 1997.