The cult favorite that aged into consensus: Around the Fur catches Deftones between nu-metal adjacency and the dream-heavy band they'd become — "My Own Summer (Shove It)"'s coiled menace, "Be Quiet and Drive"'s shoegaze-metal blueprint. Chino's scream-to-whisper instincts already fully formed. The sound of a genre outgrowing itself in real time.
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