††† aka CROSSES is Deftones singer Chino Moreno and producer,
multi-instrumentalist SHAUN LOPEZ. They work(ed) for a long time
together – on and off – on the Crosses project.
Last week they dropped a brand new 6-track EP titled PERMANENT.RADIANT.
And now they join the never-ending queue of artists singing a lullaby around
the Xmas tree. They picked the 1987 George Michael ballad torch One More Try
to cover for the festive Holidays.
††† aka CROSSES is Deftones singer Chino Moreno and producer,
multi-instrumentalist SHAUN LOPEZ. They work for a long time
together now, on and off, on the Crosses project.
Chino Moreno:”The six songs people are hearing are just scratching
the surface of the vast collection we’re sitting on,” the frontman told us.
Kerrang: PERMANENT.RADIANT, the band’s first output in eight years, finds them
with creative juice at full flow. Once again, this is music for solitude, for headphones,
for the night. It’s a sound built on atmosphere and vastness, to the point where the actual
songwriting itself is a secondary feature to the depth of sound in which the pair urge
you to take a bath.
TUTV: Thie EP feels/resonates as if Chino Moreno wants to go soft, romantic
and even poppy & dancey at times for a change, away from deaf-tones. It works
now and then for my ears, but overall it’s not really a memorable offering.