Guitars? Nope. Drums? Hardly. Chester Bennington screaming down the mic? Absolutely not. If for some reason you come into possession of this release, grab the nearest Linkin Park fan and play them this album. Ask them to guess the band. If they get it correct they’re probably a witch and should be burned at the stake. It’s like a record company exec said “I don’t care what you normally do. Ed Sheeran is popular and so are these Imagine Dragons people, go do whatever they’re doing”.
No-one likes buzzwords/phrases like ‘sold-out’ and ‘trying to stay relevant’ but nothing else really fits the bill despite how cliché it all sounds.
If you simply must listen to this album, do it once on YouTube or something, think to yourself ‘Jesus, what the fuck happened to Linkin Park’, then go listen to something better and forget about this album entirely. The best thing about One More Light is that it got me to listen to Hybrid Theory again and that was great fun.
