Shaun Lopez: Last News

HEALTH have shared a new cover of Deftones’ ‘Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)’ as part of the Spotify Singles series – listen to it below.The song was first released on Deftones’ second album ‘Around the Fur’ back in 1997 and became their most successful single up until that point. HEALTH’s industrial synthpop reimagining of the track, however, brings a very different energy.The Los Angeles noise rockers are about to release the physical version of their latest album ‘Rat Wars’, which has been available digitally since December.

††† (Crosses), the side-project of Deftones frontman Chino Moreno and multi-instrumentalist and producer Shaun Lopez, have shared two new songs from their upcoming album.On October 13, the duo will release new album ‘Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete.’, which was announced this summer with first single ‘Invisible Hand’, and will feature guest appearances from The Cure’s Robert Smith and Run The Jewels’ El-P.Ahead of the release of the album, the pair have shared two new tracks, and you can listen to ‘Light As A Feather’ and ‘Ghost Ride’ below.The new album follows recent EP ‘PERMANENT.RADIANT‘, a one-off double A-side of ‘Initiation’/’Protection’ and a George Michael cover.Discussing its creation, Moreno said in a statement: “When we started working on ‘Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete.’, there was so much more light coming in my life, for numerous reasons.“There’s a lot more optimism. Even the darker themes are more romanticised and not coming from a place of despair.”Speaking to NME last year about the future of the project, Moreno said: “To use Deftones as an analogy: when we did our first record, we were just trying to figure out what the hell we were doing, ‘Around The Fur’ was us getting some confidence and success with that, then when we made ‘White Pony’ that was us saying, ‘We can do anything now’.“People liked what we did and we had the freedom to expand.

††† (Crosses), the side-project of Deftones frontman Chino Moreno and multi-instrumentalist and producer Shaun Lopez, have announced a new album titled ‘Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete.’.The album follows recent EP ‘PERMANENT.RADIANT‘, a one-off double A-side of ‘Initiation’/’Protection’ and a George Michael cover.The new album, due out on October 13 via Warner, features The Cure’s Robert Smith and Run The Jewels’ El-P.Discussing its creation, Moreno said in a statement: “When we started working on ‘Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete.’, there was so much more light coming in my life, for numerous reasons.“There’s a lot more optimism. Even the darker themes are more romanticised and not coming from a place of despair.”Watch the video for new single ‘Invisible Hand’ and see the artwork and tracklist for ‘Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete.’ below.1. ‘Pleasure’ 2. ‘Invisible Hand’ 3. ‘Found’ 4. ‘Light As A Feather’ ‘Pulseplagg’ ‘Runner’ ‘Big Youth’ (feat. El-P) ‘End Youth’ (Reprise) ‘Last Rites’ ‘Ghost Ride’ ‘Grace’ ‘Eraser’ ‘Natural Selection’ ‘Girls Float † Boys Cry’ (feat. Robert Smith) ‘Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete.’Speaking to NME last year about the future of the project, Moreno said: “To use Deftones as an analogy: when we did our first record, we were just trying to figure out what the hell we were doing, ‘Around The Fur’ was us getting some confidence and success with that, then when we made ‘White Pony’ that was us saying, ‘We can do anything now’.“People liked what we did and we had the freedom to expand.

††† (Crosses), the side-project of Deftones frontman Chino Moreno and Far multi-instrumentalist Shaun Lopez, have spoken to NME about what to expect from their new album and upcoming live shows.The duo, who released their self-titled debut album in 2014, announced their return in December by signing a new deal with Warner Records and releasing a cover of Q Lazzarus’ ‘Goodbye Horses’. Then last month, they shared two brand new original songs, ‘Initiation’ and ‘Protection‘.

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††† (Crosses), the side project of Deftones’ Chino Moreno and producer/multi-instrumentalist Shaun Lopez, have shared two new songs – you can listen to ‘Initiation’ and ‘Protection’ below.The LA group, who released their self-titled debut album in 2014, announced their return in December by signing a new deal with Warner Records and releasing a cover of Q Lazzarus’ ‘Goodbye Horses’.Moreno and Lopez have now shared two new ††† (Crosses) tracks. ‘Initiation’, which is accompanied by a Lorenzo Diego Carrera-directed video, is inspired by the “world is yours” scene from Scarface and is described in a press release as “a soundtrack for uncertain times”.You can watch the video for ‘Initiation’, which features both band members and Thais Molon (playing a recurring character who has featured in such ††† (Crosses) videos as 2013’s ‘Bitches Brew’ and 2014’s ‘The Epilogue’), below.††† (Crosses) have also shared the track ‘Protection’, which “digs deeper into their influences and electronic textures with its masterful production”.

Deftones’ Chino Moreno has released his first track in six years with his Crosses project – scroll down the page to listen to it now.The band – which has also featured guitarist Shaun Lopez and bassist Chuck Doom – released their debut album in 2014.Their first output since that record has now arrived in the form of a cover of Sacramento band Cause & Effect’s ‘The Beginning Of The End’.The original version of the song appeared on Cause & Effect’s self-titled debut album, which was released in 1990.