Album Review – LINKIN PARK – One More Light
Review by Geoff Jenke
Linkin Park have moved on… to pop. After their return to the original Linkin Park sound with their 2014 album “The Hunting Party”, the album One More Light is Linkin Park Lite. Naturally there has been a backlash from fans, many who will move on from the band after this album.
Linkin Park have been dabbling occasionally into other areas of music for a few albums now. They have issued electronic and alt-rock tracks before and heck, even a concept album with the A Thousand Suns album. It seems Linkin Park have always taken risks and if you don’t like what they doing, they don’t give a flying…..
Linkin Park came together in 1996, in the nu-metal age of rock. In 2000 they released their debut album The Hybrid Theory which has gone on to sell in excess of 11 million copies.
Now in 2017 we have One More Light, and we are seeing Linkin Park in a completely new light. A bit of useless trivia, this is the first Linkin Park album that has a song on the album that is the name of the album.
The biggest concern of the album is the “sameness” of the album. You never know what track you are on as they tend to blend into each other. If you love the opening track Nobody Can Save Me, you will like the entire album. There are some nice rhymes by Pusher T on Good Goodbye and the track Heavy features some smooth sounds of Kiiara, but the track is far from heavy.
The title track One More Light doesn’t stray far from the other tracks and is probably the slowest track on the album (a true ballad? Heaven forbid!)
Bands do move on, sometimes it works (U2, Joshua Tree to Achtung Baby), sometimes it doesn’t. (Linkin Park, Hunting Party – One More Light). Linkin Park make the music they want to make so the one good thing is, you have no idea what Linkin Park will do next. Maybe they will return to their roots in Hybrid Theory. One can only hope.
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