DEFTONES: Diamond Eyes Vinyl LP

Chi Cheng had been in a coma for two years when the Deftones wrote Diamond Eyes. That context matters. What could have been a grief record became something stranger and more alive, a band processing the unprocessable and arriving at the most beautifully dissonant album of their career.

Released in 2010, Diamond Eyes is the record that cemented the Deftones as genuinely untouchable, beyond genre, beyond categorisation. Too heavy for the shoegaze kids, too dreamy for the metal crowd, too honest for either. Chino's vocals sit somewhere between a lullaby and a scream throughout, while the guitars do things that shouldn't work but absolutely do. If you own White Pony on wax, this sits next to it without apology.

Original 2010 pressing. Vinyl LP. If you're completing the collection, this is not the one to skip.

Fans of: My Bloody Valentine, Failure, Glassjaw, Smashing Pumpkins, A Perfect Circle.