" Talking to Myself" and " One More Light" were released as radio singles later on. " Battle Symphony", " Good Goodbye", and " Invisible" were released as promotional singles prior to the album's release. The album's lead single, " Heavy", featuring Kiiara, was released on February 16, 2017. It is also the band's first album to have a title track, as they felt that the song " One More Light" was the heart of the album. The album features guest vocal appearances from Pusha T, Stormzy, and Kiiara, and production and songwriting collaborations with JR Rotem, Julia Michaels, Justin Tranter, Ross Golan, Andrew Goldstein, blackbear, and Eg White. The sound of One More Light has been described as being more pop-focused, departing from the alternative rock and alternative metal sounds of their previous albums. Band members Brad Delson and Mike Shinoda served as the album's primary producers. The band recorded the album between September 2015 and February 2017 in multiple studios. It is the last Linkin Park album to feature lead vocalist Chester Bennington before his death on July 20, 2017. It was released on May 19, 2017, through Warner Bros. It seems like a bit of a kick in the teeth for long-time fans of the band who, with every album released are being pushed ‘one step closer’ to disowning Linkin Park forever.One More Light is the seventh studio album by American rock band Linkin Park. Time will tell whether this album does well in a mainstream scenario, the band have reached the size where they can get by on name alone, and One More Light will most likely sell many copies, but one listen should make people realise that this is an unbearably bad offering from a band who can do some much better. Sharp Edges on the other hand sounds like a throwaway B-Side that Ed Sheeran wrote in ten minutes to satisfy a record labels demands. Sorry for Now is a perfect summarisation of One More Light, the track includes just about every cliché of unimaginative modern day pop music, including that strange squeaky voice that is in just about every song in the charts right now, (see Fall Out Boy’s Young and Menace). Real sounding Bass, drums and guitars are null and void on this record, so one can only presume Brad Delson, Rob Bourdon and Dave Farrell sat twiddling their thumbs as this album was being made. But both men seem to have recorded this album whilst half asleep, Chester sounds uninterested, whilst Shinoda’s raps have little to no impact at all. In Mike Shinoda, they also have a very talented song writer, pianist/keyboardist and rapper. Which, when used correctly can complement a track no end. Linkin Park are blessed with one of the most recognisable vocalist of recent years, Chester Bennington has a truly unique voice. The minimal approach that plagues this album means there are passages that are surplus to requirements and leave you wondering what exactly you are listening to, the structuring of the songs is both basic and nonsensical in tandem. I would go as far as to say this album does not have a single redeeming moment in the entirety of its thirty-five-minute run time.
Linkin Park here on this album, do not do it well, not even slightly. As a fan of heavier music, it is often easy to be somewhat snobby towards pop music, and although it isn’t necessarily something I would listen to, I can appreciate when it is done well. But that’s not where the problem with this album lies, it is simply a collection of dull, bland faceless songs which do little to nothing to catch the imagination. If making pop music is what they want to do, then so be it. One More Light, marks the moment where we (rock fans) have to admit that Linkin Park are no longer a rock band. It’s been slim pickings since then sadly, however 2014’s The Hunting Party seemed like a step in the right direction to getting somewhere close to past glories.
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The follow up, Meteora, was also a great album stacked full of hits. Love them or hate them, Linkin Park changed the face of music back in 2000, with the release of the ground-breaking Hybrid Theory rock music became a big deal again, the record went on to sell millions of copies and to this day is one of the highest selling albums of all time, whilst being a gateway album for many people to discover heavy music.
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