Those songs, all the lyrical power and the dominance of Chester’s singing are enough to carry it over some seriously down moments.John Hanes, MixingEngineer - CHESTER BENNINGTON, Lead Vocals - LINKIN PARK, MainArtist - Ethan Mates, Engineer - Josh Newell, Engineer - Fraser T. Linkin Park definitely achieved the album they were going for, and it works on a massive level about half the time. True to form, the entire album is a blink of short tracks and you miss it. Hearing the band out Dashboard Confessional the originals, I can see entire stadiums of people losing their shit to this one. Just an amazing folksy pop song, and really the most left turn thing they could do considering the rest of this material. When you find yourself humming song weeks after hearing it, you will bow down. ‘Sharp Edges’ is a tune I am not sure other bands could pull off. The title track will make grown men cry with its self-actualization and emotional accounting of a lifetime of issues. One thing you can say about Linkin Park, when they embrace something like faint swells of trap beats, original samples that ape the mid-1980s synths, and more “snaps and claps” rhythms, they go really hard to sell it.įortunately, the album finishes strong. ‘Sorry For Now’ and ‘Halfway Right’ mean well, but fall a little flat.
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It makes me wonder what a full EP from these collaborators might sound like.
It’s a great song, has enough backbone to rock, and the tandem of Chester and Kiara is explosive. Featuring pop songstress Kiara, the track hits on every level. After this track, ‘Heavy’ drops and it’s night and day. ‘Invisible’ is, on the other hand, is pretty homogeneous sounding and more like a cute pop song, that I’d rather the band not tried their hand at. ‘Battle Symphony’ goes back to the introspection of the earlier tracks but strips away some of the gloss in the best way possible. Slick guitars, great melodies, hip-hop beats to rock out to all come together with a great sing-along chorus. ‘Talking To Myself’ is great and one of the more typical LP songs on the album. Chester’s melodies will hit you hard, even if the song doesn’t grab you. I tend to avoid pop cliches like auto-tune and too neat production this genre favors, but it’s a tight track. If that sounds like a dream team of talent for you, then you will love this track. ‘Good Goodbye’ is a slick piece of rock, pop, and rap and features Pusha T and Stormzy. Not a total curveball from the band, but certainly not the jarring rock and danceable openers the band is known for. It is a straight-up pop song, more in line with pop and EDM than anything else out there today. Opener ‘Nobody Can Save Me’ starts with a rap beat with frontman Chester’s Bennington’s ageless voice carrying the melody, full of hope beyond the dark. I knew going this record wasn’t really going to be up my alley all the time musically, but I went in with open ears. One More Light has a wistful feeling of a grown-ups mindset, but the sounds meant for the youth. On the flip side, musically Linkin Park still has trace elements of what makes them compelling musically, but after the anger and toughness of 2014’s The Hunting Party, they have dialed that down and added the sheen of pop, EDM, rap, and RnB. The baggy jeans and frosted tips that were the fashion then they hit like a bomb when they were young are gone, and now they have dad bods, wrinkles, families, loves, losses and all that goes with adulting. Linkin Park are at their rawest emotionally on One More Light in a way they always are, but also through a lens they never had before. It’s a short list of bands that were able to do it without alienating their fans. This is the fight Linkin Park have been in since about album three, and now they are in it again on album seven in almost 20 years, One More Light ( Warner Bros.)įew bands have been able to be artists, wear their maturity on their sleeves, grow up gracefully and still be relevant. The few that don’t ever sell out, fight an uphill battle the rest of their careers. The problem is that once you’ve gotten a taste of that hot hot spotlight, usually a band or artist ends up uncompromising to stay in front of it. Most bands that hit the mainstream have something catchy, visceral, and often a magic quality about their talent. I don’t mean “former child stars gone bad, next on TMZ”. It’s a tricky thing growing up and playing music.
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