So, um, remember when Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington told us that the band's forthcoming new album (out this June) would be a retreat from the "bonkers" experimentalism of A Thousand Suns? (An album I've actually really, really grown to love.) Yeah, I wouldn't be so sure about that just yet—in a new interview with SPIN, the band previews a new song called "I'll Be Gone" that features none other than Polaris Music Prize-winning musician Owen Pallett.
Yes, the same Owen Pallett you're thinking of… the same Owen Pallett who's worked with Arcade Fire and The Mountain Goats… the same Owen Pallett you're always confusing with Andrew Bird. Yes, that Owen Pallett.
"He's incredible", says Bennington. "You send him notes and he's immediately like, 'I just sent you the track. Like, five minutes ago. It's done.'"
Yes, I know—one song with a string arrangement doesn't mean the new Linkin Park won't be a return to their riff-heavy, hip-hop and electronica dabbling early '00s sound. It does mean that this snide, cynical music critic jerk won't be writing the album off just yet. At the very least, there will be one song on the album I can get behind. (p.s. Can we please, please, please get Mr. Hahn to spin over whatever Owen Pallett did? That would be extra super double amazing.)
What do you guys think—will Linkin Park maintain some of their experimental edge on this new album? Does anyone genuinely want them to go back to making straight-up rap-rock music again? Let us know in the comments section below. For everything else on your favorite bands, be sure to check out our Music, Indie and Hard Rock Ologies.
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