Saturday Night Wrist - Reception

Reception

Saturday Night Wrist gained largely positive reviews. earning a score of 72 at Metacritic. The music magazine Alternative Press gave to the album a perfect score, stating: Saturday Night Wrist proves yet again that Deftones have a corner on the transcendental-metal market. Drowned in Sound also gave it a rather positive review saying: "If you've even the slightest interest in 'heavy' music, you simply must make Saturday Night Wrist an integral part of your record collection."

The A.V. Club gave it a positive review, stating: "The album is mostly a heady, atmospheric, willfully too-difficult-for-radio wash of sound that, save for a handful of tracks, stretches out and explores Deftones' creative limits more than ever before." A similar statement came from PopMatters, concluding: "For the most part, Saturday Night Wrist has the Deftones improving on all fronts, whether it's Moreno's stirring vocal work or the band's improved versatility. The process might have been painstaking, but it appears that after all that work, the band is closer to a fully-realized sound than ever before."

Other positive review came from Allmusic stating: "these songs, as diverse as they are, are utterly disciplined sonically. They have all the tension and dynamic, all the immediacy of yore, but the mix is spacious, and Chino Moreno's vocals soar above it." Less enthusiastic though positive reviews came from Rolling Stone, pointing out that "The songwriting never quite comes together, but this is a metal record that gets by as much on sonic tricks as monster riffs." Finally Spin magazine called the album "a sideways step in the right direction".