Though most of the songs are less rock band-oriented than typical Deftones, "Ataraxia"**** still has the rock edge, as well as an interesting chord texture, and "Your Skull Is Red"**** adds drums that feel like a war zone to the Deftones formula, while the multiple guitars of "Blvd Nights"**** have the nice distorted/clean layering of some Deftones songs. The songs with Rob Crow (of Pinback), "Princeton Review", "Our Ride To The Rectory", "Elizabeth", and "11/11", have a more delicate and complex approach, and really for a kind of album to themselves rather than flavor the rest of the tracks. "King Diamond" is another oddity, Chino and Mary Timony sniping at each other over Beastie Boys backing tracks. Timony's out of tune vocals help make "Tomb of Liegia" a boring stinker, seemingly made for some mediocre horror movie, and "Staring At The Queen" is a pointless collage of noises, but the rest of the album is well-executed, from ethereal rock of "Ever" and "Ever Since WwI" to thundering instrumental/post-rock of "Live From The Stage"****
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