A recent article from The Hundreds confirms that LIVING THINGS is currently in post production with new mixer Manny the Mixer who has been linked to Justin Bieber's "Boyfriend" and John Mayer's upcoming album. "He earned his stripes in the days of early ’90s West Coast rap, and has the harrowing “Behind the Music” tales as evidence." Manny's mixing can be heard first hand in Linkin Park's new single BURN IT DOWN. Though this is only the first piece of twelve from Manny, discuss here on the LPA about how you believe LIVING THINGS may sound. Will the mixing be even better than previous albums?
Readers have speculated that Manny the Mixer is in fact Manny Marroquin who has worked on a myriad of genres in his years of experience as a mixer with artists ranging from Tupac, Common, Lupe Fiasco to John Mayer, U2, Alicia Keys, Rihanna, The Fray, and now Linkin Park.
The article also offers some details on the sounds of the upcoming album:
Living Things debuts June 26th. It’s by far the band’s best, most comprehensive work, surprisingly jumpstarting with LP’s familiar, heavy rap-n-roll sound of yesteryear. The first two tracks are like old friends to Linkin Park fans and critics, reunited after the band strayed and searched and experimented with the avant-garde. My favorite Linkin Park album was their last, A Thousand Suns, because it played like a book is read. It was cerebral and heady, it was an emotional story that had weight.
Don’t get it twisted, Living Things doesn’t ditch that. By the third song, you are jarringly pulled into uncharted territory. The music grows in brooding intensity, it has an exotic flavor, tinged with modes of everything. Linkin Park, you may know, was originally titled Hybrid Theory (as their introductory record) because their ethos was to fuse and mix the things they loved — not just music genres, but artistic elements, ethnicities, cultures. This album hearkens back to that philosophy, it’s a sonic cornucopia: heavy bass lines and dubstep-reminiscent back beats, Chester Bennington’s otherworldly vocals screeching over punishing guitars.
But at the end of the day, I see what it takes to make these records. I can almost fathom what Linkin Park does to achieve creation. It’s not an art you can pay to download, process with a filter, ReTweet, or learn through a Youtube tutorial. To make a powerful record that communicates a story and a mission, that speaks to legions of followers,… takes brains, it takes heart, and it takes fists.
And that’s very Cool indeed.
By: lpassociation
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