One More Light | Review Round-Up Thread

It's almost like these guys don't even listen to the album...

 

So reviews are mostly saying it's not bad but nothing spectacular either.
So, like the reception of all of their previous albums then?

Where's Derek and his review?

 

These reviewers really don't know anything about the band?

 

They drop a pop album and dont get full hate by the reviews. I see this as a good sign somehow.

 

These are portly written reviews. Period.

 

Same, I was expecting a lot worse.

99% of music reviews are poorly written IMO.

 

I am really excited for Nobody can save me. Almost all of the reviews are showering praise on it. Plus, no matter the album, the openers have always been great.

 

This album is a pop album, of course they never gonna like it. they're rock magazines.

 

You know, I can't help but notice that this album is kind of like a sister album to Living Things. I think both sound similar and share a lot of the same qualities in the sense that they both were kind of ''pop'' albums and also the fact that they're both kind of ''firecracker'' albums as well. For example, I can see a number of songs from One More Light fitting in well on Living Things, and vice versa. Something like Burn It Down or Powerless or any of those could fit in fine on One More Light.

 

This is why I find the hugely negative reaction on Youtube etc. really strange. OML isn't worlds apart from what they've done in the past, Living Things in particular.

 

Eeeeh... OML = LT is quite a stretch. LT was more a "radio rock" album for sure, but they still made rock songs. One More Light is them unabashedly wanting to sit themselves in with the 21 Pilots and the Chainsmokers in between the new Katy Perry song. Maybe even get a little of that old Coldplay vibe in there as well.

There's "old Linkin Park" elements in most of the OML songs for sure, and they do have a seasoned pop history, but this new material is still all those turned up to a way higher degree than they've ever done before.

 

LT was pop rock. OML is pop.

By default, it's gonna be the LP record to which it's gonna be compared the most, even though they're not carbon copy of each other.

 

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/review-rap-metal-heroes-linkin-park-turn-pop-47418766

strakt posted this gem in the shoutbox, but it needed its own post. holy FUCK is this awful.

 

"Even then, those are the most adventurous songs on the album. The rest fall into the same category of morose rock anthems that Linkin Park has been dutifully putting out for years. Only these are riddled with generic platitudes about how "if I fall, get knocked down / I'll pick myself up off the ground" (Battle Symphony) and "what doesn't kill us makes us stronger" (Sharp Edges). Played in succession with Laughter, Light is an illuminating reminder that not all bands can get better with age."

-USA Today

 

God, this is an awful review, much worse than the other ones which brings the question if they've always hated what LP made or they haven't really listened to OML. Yes, it's different, it's pop but it can't be that bad if all other reviews give it an average mark.

 

Since when did reviews matter?

I mean, ATS has 66% on Metacritic. That was the point I stopped paying attention.

 

ATS, in the big scheme of things, would be about a 6,5 / 7 in my opinion. Which is good.

 

Most of the reviews didn't mentioned SORRY FOR NOW