If you're a Deftones fan, there's good news and bad news in store about frontman Chino Moreno's latest side project.
The good news is that Crosses - which pairs Moreno's tortured vocal moods with gloomy electronica, guitar crunch and shimmering 80s melodies - occasionally hits the same mark as Deftones' beautiful prog-metal racket.
While previous EPs led listeners down a dark, glitchy path that could be hard to love, their debut album adds in electrifying freakouts, like the celebratory fuzz-blast of Blk Stallion and the loping thud and feedback crunch of Bitches Brew.
The bad news is that there are some seriously redundant moments, like the cheesy Genesis-style drum fills of The Epilogue, or when Moreno utters the deadly serious line, "I want to pull out your crazy, pour it over me" on Bermuda Locket.
It doesn't help that 10 tracks here - like stuttering mood piece Prurient, which could be filler from a recent Deftones record - have been released on previous EPs, the first dating back to 2011.
