The closing Sharp Edges is bordering on “Linkin Park does country pop” and is a bewildering way to finish the album – the title track would have been a much better choice. The album’s title track is a slow burning ballad that is Chester Bennington’s best performance of the album (and will blatently be “a lighter / phone moment” at the band’s upcoming world tour) and is perhaps the track that will sit best with the fans who have been with the band since the start. Other tracks like Sorry For Now (even with the album’s only guitar solo) and Halfway Right just do not leave enough of a lasting impression to be anything more than pleasant background music. Battle Symphony has an effective mainstream appeal to it, while One More Light’s first single, Heavy (featuring female pop star Kiiara), for all the mocking it received on it’s initial release, is genuinely quite a catchy song with earworm qualities.
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Ironically, the albums two strongest tracks are the ones where Linkin Park go full on pop. Talking To Myself, the one track to feature more than a smidgen of guitars, is unfortunately only noteworthy for that fact and little else.
Good Goodbye sees Mike Shinoda’s brightest performance of the album, but the track feels like nothing more than a blatant grab for some of the stardust recently sprinkled on grime guest stars Pusha T and especially Stormzy. The album begins with Nobody Can Save Me, which is essentially an up-tempo ballad that doesn’t really go anywhere. This album is powered almost exclusively by synth and Chester Bennington’s vocals, with Mike Shinoda taking the occasional turn, but this is very much Chester’s album to vocally dominate.
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Synths are in in a big way, which makes one think Joe Hahn has probably had to upgrade his set up as the primary source of instrumentation on this album. Rob Bourdon’s drumming, a primary feature of many a previous Linkin Park album, is understated throughout and feels like it is there literally for timekeeping and little else. Anyone looking for a continuation of what seemed to be a return to their heavy roots on parts of The Hunting Party should probably stop reading now.Īside from the odd jangle of an acoustic here and a few seconds of distortion there, guitars are virtually absent for the entire album. On listening to One More Light in it’s entirety, you find out just what a radical shift they have taken. Given the direction taken by the singles already released from the album such as Heavy, Good Goodbye and Battle Symphony, it was obvious the band had made a complete departure from virtually everything they’d done previously. It’s hard to know where to start with Linkin Park’s One More Light. Overall Score: 4/10 Songs: 5/10 Musicality: 3/10 WTF Value: 8/10 Pros: Chester's vocals in places | Heavy Cons: Pretty much everything else | What have they done?!
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