One More Light

The version of Linkin Park heard on One More Light, the band’s seventh album, is entirely unrecognizable. After a 10-year journey that began with collaborating with Rick Rubin for 2007’s Minutes to Midnight, the band no longer resembles the nu-metal/rap hybrid who helped define a chunk of the early ’00s in any form. The band flirted with EDM and pop before, notably on 2010’s A Thousand Suns, but the sugary hooks, booming synths, and vaguely inspirational lyrics mark a drastic reinvention for a band who, even at their nadir, always retained their identity.

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The band rebuked fan complaints that they were selling out, with Bennington admonishing fans in an NME interview to “move the fuck on” from Hybrid Theory. “If you’re saying we’re doing what we’re doing for a commercial or monetary reason, trying to make success out of some formula .. .then stab yourself in the face!” Bennington exclaimed. To his point, One More Light certainly sounds like a record the band wants to make. Even if they sound hopelessly lost as they meander through the pop charts, Linkin Park genuinely appear to be enjoying their new role. Songs like “Halfway Right” and “Sharp Edges” find them reflective and nostalgic, looking back at their younger days spent “getting high,” ready to offer advice like an overeager father figure. The problem is that Bennington’s comments in that interview are far more affecting than anything on One More Light, which is a muddled mess of a record from a band that completely abandoned any sense of identity.

Students: João Pedro Matos Lalucce, Vitória Idalgo

Fonte: https://www.google.com.br/amp/s/consequenceofsound.net/2017/05/album-review-linkin-park-one-more-light/amp/