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自从7月LP官网上放出新专辑即将发布的消息后,3年多未出录音室专辑的LP再一次回到人们的视线中。尽管有之前的New Devide过渡,但3年的时间一首单曲肯定是不能满足广大乐迷的。因此在新专辑第一波主打The Catalyst放出之始,这股期盼的力量就开始不断地积聚了。特别是LP人气特别高的内地,这首新单曲甚至比Taylor Swift的Mine点播的蹿升速度还要快。
9月7日半夜,终于拿到了这张期盼已久的新碟,Mike Shinoda事先打过预防针,这是一张与以往都不同的专辑,具体理由可以用他们自己的一段文字来揭示:
'A Thousand Suns'
We were not making an album.
For months, we'd been destroying and rebuilding our band. The experiments that resulted filled the studio hard drive with diverse, abstract sounds. Amorphous echoes, cacophonous samples, and handmade staccato merged into wandering, elusive melody. Each track felt like a hallucination.
We didn't know if any of those unorthodox ideas could be incorporated into a traditional album, but we knew we didn't want our next album to be predictable. Sitting together in the same studio where we made our first album, all six of us voiced a commitment to going out on a limb, to making something truly daring. We asked ourselves: were we all earnestly willing, more than ever before, to abandon the precepts of commercial ambition in pursuit of what we believe to be honest art?
The inclination to begin writing conventional songs for a conventional album came and went. The temptation to adjust our creative vision to fulfill expectations beyond our studio walls yielded to the audacious ambition of what we hoped to achieve as a band. The two years of making 'A Thousand Suns' marked our exhilarating, surrealistic, and often challenging journey into the creative unknown.
On the eve of its completion, this body of work, assembled through unconscious inspiration and unmitigated exertion, has revealed to us notions both stirring and surprising. The album's personified imagery is neither dogma nor political premeditation. The emergent themes and metaphors illuminate a uniquely human story.
'A Thousand Suns' grapples with the personal cycle of pride, destruction, and regret. In life, like in dreams, this sequence is not always linear. And, sometimes, true remorse penetrates the devastating cycle. The hope, of course, springs from the notion that the possibility of change is born in our most harrowing moments.
Enjoy the music.
Linkin Park
Co-produced by Rick Rubin and Mike Shinoda.
这段东西的用词还蛮艰涩的,不过看完基本能大致了解这张专辑诞生的基础了。可能大部分喜欢LP的欧美乐迷都是冲着所谓Nu-Metal那种混合型摇滚的风格而来的,不过这次他们要重新认识一下LP了。今早拿到专辑后我争取第一时间将所有曲目过了一遍,第一感受就是:不习惯!为什么?因为差异真的太大了。专辑的整体性很强,我边听边对朋友说:这张碟是不是专为《荣誉勋章》制作的啊。当初The Catalyst作为《荣誉勋章4》的宣传片配乐出现,不是结合起来听还真有点不适应。现在一个月过去了,The Catalyst的风格渐渐适应,本以为能窥到新专辑的一角,结果大门打开的时候才发现完全不是那么回事,你还是要继续适应这一整张的曲目,哈。
这张专辑在封套上主推的是三首歌:The Catalyst、Waiting For The End、Iridescent,第一首大家都熟悉了,第二首居然让我觉得有点像Elbow,第三首的编曲方面则是有点像Coldplay,当然这只是很初步的印象,我只是尽我所认知的范围里做一个大致的描述,到底如何还要通过慢慢品味来解读。嗯,我刚才说了“慢慢品味”,基本上代表了我对这张专辑的态度,从之前那段LP自述的文字中我们也可以知道他们在寻找突破,也就使得专辑带有强烈的实验性质,就比如大量使用了人声采样以及历史演讲录音,这在以前的专辑中也确实出现过,但也只是很小的比重。其实看完他们自我介绍专辑的内容后感觉这支乐队似乎想超越U2那样的先锋,他们考虑的东西其实非常朴实,这个思想也一直贯彻在他们前三张录音室专辑中,但从未像今天这样表现的那么强烈。音乐的力量到底能有多大这个没法说清楚,但是作为流行乐界一支商业运作乐队能有这样的想法实在不容易,况且他们还那么的年轻。
除了专辑自己推的三首单曲,还可以听下Burning In The Skies和Robot Boy,这是个人觉得保留了比较多LP之前风格的歌曲,When They Come For Me却给人一种强烈的宗教仪式感,Blackout的口味则是相当的重,都有点速度金属的倾向了,Jornada Del Muerto虽然只能当作是interlude,却用了两句日文作为歌词,就和Melee新专辑里翻唱Queen那首经典的Teo Torriatte一样。各种实验素材的混合让我有种当年听70年代实验摇滚时的感动,如果你听过Dead by Sunrise,或许还会找到Chester穿越的影子,呵呵。多听听,细细品味,你能感受到一个全新的Linkin Park!
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