Album Rating: 2.0

I've only liked a couple of Fantano's reviews, but yeah, this one's on point.

idk if anyone watched Fantano's review of this but he's fucking spot on

I saw his review, agree with most part but talking to myself and sharp edges are decent, one more light is the other decent one. Heavy and the other 6 tracks still makes me wanna kill mike shinoda and I am a very hardcore LP fanboy. Also saw that some people were angry or making shitpositing blaming him for chester's death, that was funny and lame at the same time

Besides is depressing that this has become the swan song of chester.

Album Rating: 2.5

"swan song"

Album Rating: 2.5

'What do you call a broken lightsaber? The light that never comes.'



Lel.

It's easy to assume this is post-Chester-suicide-pity talking but tbqh this is really not that bad and definitely doesn't deserve to have an avg this low, hell there's even some really nice sounding stuff going on in some of these songs

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Album Rating: 1.5

"It's easy to assume this is post-Chester-suicide-pity talking but tbqh this is really not that bad and definitely doesn't deserve to have an avg this low, hell there's even some really nice sounding stuff going on in some of these songs "



The lyrics on here sadly reached a deeper meaning now but the music is just so bad. The only song I can slightly feel on here is the t/t. The live performance at Jimmy Kimmel is def amazing though, very emotional.

Album Rating: 2.0

i'm fine with the music tbh. i don't think they did the pop sound as terribly asbestos other people seem to, save a couple of really questionable moments

Album Rating: 2.5

Still pissed that A Thousand Suns 2.0 will never be a thing. Living Things wasn't even close

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"Still pissed that A Thousand Suns 2.0 will never be a thing. Living Things wasn't even close"



In terms of just the lyrics and themes, The Hunting Party had some similarities to ATS

Album Rating: 2.5

A thousand Suns and Hunting Party are their best anyways.



This album is actually pretty great, even if a bit formulaic. I'd much rather this album than any other pop album released this year

Album Rating: 2.5

"this is really not that bad and definitely doesn't deserve to have an avg this low"

maybe not this low, but it does deserve a low average tbh



ATS at a 2.6 on the other hand I will never understand, and how Living Things beats it is beyond me. That album is basically just a messier, more cookie-cutter ATS. Ridiculous.

ATS has some of LP's best songs but it always felt like a meme album since like half the tracks on that are lazy interludes. Then again, Living Things gave me AIDS so in retrospect ATS is not so bad.

Album Rating: 2.5

tbh Empty Spaces is the only lazy interlude on ATS and it's so short it doesn't even matter.

All the rest hold up on their own and enhance the album's flow.

Album Rating: 2.5

I get the feelings of lazy/pointless/etc towards Empty Spaces, but it's just an 11 second break between two drastically different tracks and for the purposes of the album it deserves to be there. BITS and WTCFM are incredibly different from each other, BITS being far more morose and brooding, whereas WTCFM is a massive middle finger at a negative person.

Empty Spaces is just the calm before the storm that separates the two.

Album Rating: 2.0

yeah empty space doesnt bother me anymore, tho it really used to

Album Rating: 1.5

I can't agree with you guys. I still think this album is their worst. I'll give credit where its due, but all things considered, the album is reaching the destination while going the wrong way. There were some good spots like "Heavy," "One More Light," and "Talking to Myself," but I found most other songs, although well-written, to be ruined by the music. Music relays the emotion of the song. Without it, there isn't a lot for the listener to feel. As I've posted before, a Youtuber remixed "Heavy" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDwC7bXygxg) and the song makes sense. The music matches the lyrics and relays the message better. It's not that "One More Light" was a terrible album, it just had fixable flaws. The reason I rate it as bad is due to the way the songs are relayed. The music doesn't fit on most of the songs. The dark lyrics contrast with the light atmosphere and the song sounds, for lack of a better term, broken.



"Nobody Can Save Me" is one of the better written songs on "One More Light," but the music makes the song sound out of place. You're discussing a theme in which the subject feels as if his inner struggles have become their existence and is beyond help, but the music takes away from that. The instrumentals doesn't relay the tone or even the mood the lyrics display. All the music does is relay a basic pop backdrop to a song about becoming what you hate. The music is trying to invoke a sing-along, dance, or fun atmosphere about your inner-self dying each day. (cont.)

Album Rating: 1.5

"Sorry For Now," one of the deepest songs on this record, is one of the more haunting songs on "One More Light" considering what happened to Chester Bennington. The lyrics describe a situation in which the subject drifts off to escape the problems they face beneath. The subject is also apologizing for not being there when the going gets tough, but promises closure once the listener understands why they are escaping. The music, however, establishes a fun pop atmosphere filled with high notes and up-tempo beats. It simply doesn't make sense considering the morbid lyrics.



My point of "reaching the destination by going the wrong way" is referring to the lyrics and music. Both have a relationship where music tells the story the lyrics explain. The lyrics are describing a low point in the subjects life and his longing for "one more light" while the music is creating this fun illusion that is encouraging the listener to dance. It's frustrating because the lyrics are amazing and deserve to be appreciated but the music ruins all of the art involved. The basic pop approach that sounds all too similar to other artists destroys any future these songs have. "Heavy," "Talking to Myself," and "One More Light" may be the chosen few that have some lasting appeal, but the rest are lost in the stale, overrated, and basic instrumentals that the band threw together.