A few things in this post, Linkin Park and System of a Down’s Daron Malakian got to speak with LA Times about The Hunting Party, while most of the article is about the new album and the direction they went in, one part did catch my attention, Mike Shinoda had admitted that their recent work might not have been their best, he specifically spoke about LIVING THINGS: “‘Living Things’ was a very careful balance of sonic elements. But looking back, I’d say if we’d gone any further in that direction I would’ve been bummed out.” Read part of the article below, the full version here.
“And there was a day when I listened to it and thought, ‘Oh my God,’ ” Shinoda recalled recently. “I like to listen to this type of music, but there’s too much of it out there, and I don’t want to get lost in the oceans of it.”One more thing, Linkin Park have announced that The Hunting Party is exclusively available on Xbox 360 and Xbox One with 4 live songs, you can listen to them in full on Xbox there is a preview here. The live songs are:
He was sitting in a North Hollywood recording studio and tapped the mixing console for emphasis. “Meanwhile, there’s this other thing that I want, and it’s not being fed by anybody. So that’s what I need to do.”
Shinoda, one of the group’s two vocalists along with Chester Bennington, promptly scrapped the demos he’d been working on and started again, channeling influences he hadn’t called on since Linkin Park’s early days: Helmet, Minor Threat, the Swedish punk band Refused. He decided to record to tape rather than with digital software and to concentrate on performances rather than post-production editing.
“I told the guys in the band, ‘We need to weed out anything that doesn’t feel direct and visceral,’ ” Shinoda said. “This record had to be raw as hell.”
“They were just in the mood to do something heavy again,” said Daron Malakian of System of a Down, who co-wrote and played guitar on “Rebellion.” (Other guests on the album include Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Helmet’s Page Hamilton.)
“For a couple of records they went off and did something different,” Malakian went on, referring to “Living Things” and its spacey 2010 predecessor, “A Thousand Suns.” “But I think they were trying to make something that connected with the harder audience that was their first fanbase to begin with.”
“We see a void,” the singer said, in which listeners are being inundated with “safety rock sold as edgy alternative music.” As an example, Bennington sang the high-pitched acoustic-guitar riff from Imagine Dragons’ “It’s Time.”
Shinoda acknowledged that the group’s recent work may not be among its best.
“‘Living Things’ was a very careful balance of sonic elements,” he said, referring to traces of pop and dance music. “But looking back, I’d say if we’d gone any further in that direction I would’ve been bummed out.”
Still, Shinoda insisted that “The Hunting Party” was not a product of business savvy — the band’s attempt to exploit an underserved market — but of its determination to follow a creative impulse. Indeed, he described consulting Linkin Park’s management for advice on the commercial viability of an aggressive rock album in 2014 and said he was told it was hardly a sure thing.
Source: LA Times
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