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A Thousand Suns is the fourth studio album by American rock band Linkin Park. It was first released on September 8, 2010. The album was written by the band and co-produced by Linkin Park vocalist Mike Shinoda and Rick Rubin, who previously worked together to produce Minutes to Midnight (2007). The lead single for the album, "The Catalyst", was sent to radio and released to digital music retailers on August 2, 2010.[needs update] The band is currently promoting the album through the A Thousand Suns Tour.
A Thousand Suns is a concept album dealing with nuclear warfare and themes of war in general.[1][2] "On this record, the concepts blend human ideas with technology [...] Human fears, your fear of what's going to happen in the world, the music kind of references that", said Mike Shinoda on an interview with MTV.[3] The album's title comes from the Hindu Sanskrit scripture, the Bhagavad Gita: "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one," a quote made famous by J. Robert Oppenheimer in reference to the atomic bomb.[4]
Writing and recording
Recording for the album began in 2008, shortly after the release of Minutes to Midnight.[5] In November 2008 Chester Bennington stated this "sound[ed] a little daunting to me, so, I think my confidence level will drop, but when it was presented to us by this friend of ours, we liked the idea. It was an inspiring idea, and it was something we could relate a lot of the things we like to write about to."[5] In May 2009, A Billboard Magazine story was published where Shinoda revealed info on the album. "I feel like we've been writing a lot. I'd say we've got about half the music done, though I shouldn't say halfway because who knows how long the next batch of songs will take. But all the material's just kind of coming together, and every week we meet up and assess the situation and for the rest of the week we just go and work on whatever we find exciting."[6] He also explained the experimentation that the band would be working with. "It's not going to be Hybrid Theory. It's not going to be Minutes to Midnight. And if we do it right, it'll have a cutting edge sound that defines itself as an individual record separate from anything else that's out there."[6]
The album gets its name from a quote from the Hindu Sanskrit text, the Bhagvad Gita, translated as: "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky that would be like the splendor of the mighty one".[4] Drummer Rob Bourdon referred to himself and the band as "perfectionists" when asked about the new project. "We tend to be perfectionists and its sort of how we work, We like being in the studio and when we get in there we write a ton of material."[7] Bourdon admitted that the album was a challenge to complete. "We've been making music for a long time so one of the challenges was to evolve and make something to keep us interested and also have a lot of fun in the process. We've been used to making a certain type of music and using sounds to accomplish that. So to break out of that and push ourselves to grow is definitely challenging."[7]
Style and composition
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In an interview with Rolling Stone in May 2009, Shinoda revealed that the band was in the process of writing and recording material for the album.[8] The album was originally scheduled for an early 2010 release, but Shinoda was largely concerned with "the quality of the tunes" and stated that "if we need to take a step back and make sure everything is top, top quality by our standards, we will."[8] Shinoda also stated that, in comparison to Minutes to Midnight, the new album would have a bigger "thread of consistency" and would be more experimental and "hopefully more cutting-edge".[9]
It has also been stated that the album honors the hip-hop group Public Enemy. On the song "Wretches and Kings", Shinoda stated "There is a homage to Chuck D on there. It's probably the most hip-hop song on the record and one of the most aggressive... Public Enemy were very three-dimensional with their records because although they seemed political, there was a whole lot of other stuff going on in there too. It made me think how three-dimensional I wanted our record to be without imitating them of course, and show where we were at creatively."[10] The album also features samples of notable speeches by American political figures,[11] including Martin Luther King, Jr., J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Mario Savio.
"When it came to doing things that felt very much like older Linkin Park, like mixing hip-hop with a rock chorus, [we] felt like, if we were going to do it, we need to really do it in a way that felt natural and felt original and felt like it was something we hadn't done in the past," Chester Bennington stated in an interview with MTV News[12] who referred to Linkin Park's new style as being less technical and instead being more organic: "[While] there are hip-hop songs on the album — 'Wretches and Kings', 'When They Come for Me' — they're like nothing the band have tried before: snarling, raw, dark and [...] strangely organic."[12]
Release
On July 8, 2010, the band officially announced that the album would be released on September 14, 2010 in the US. The band also revealed that the album's first single would be "The Catalyst", which was released on August 2.[13][needs update]
From July 9, 2010 until July 25, 2010, Linkin Park held the contest "Linkin Park, Featuring You".[14] In the contest, fans could download stems from the album's first single, "The Catalyst", remix the stems and/or write their own parts for the song on any instrument.[14] The winner of this contest was Czeslaw "NoBraiN" Sakowski from Świdnica, Poland, whose remix is featured as an additional track on the album, available via Best Buy and Napster. The album's liner notes also credit Sakowski with "supplemental programming" on "When They Come for Me".[15] The top 20 remixes that were selected by the band are being considered for future use as b-sides and online downloads.[15] Two of the remixes (by DIGITALOMAT and ill Audio) have since been released via the band's webpage as free mp3 downloads, while two others have (by Cale Pellick and DJ Endorphin) been released on an exclusive German release of "The Catalyst".
The music video for "The Catalyst", directed by band member Joseph Hahn, premiered on August 26, 2010.[16] On August 31, 2010, It was announced that the band would perform the single live for the first time at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards on September 12, 2010.[17] The venue of the debut live performance was Griffith Observatory, an iconic location used in Hollywood Movies.[18][19] However, the venue was held secret till the performance but was revealed to be a prominent landmark of Los Angeles.[20]
On September 2, 2010, Linkin Park released another track from A Thousand Suns, "Wretches and Kings" to those who had pre-ordered the album.[21] Shinoda stated the song pays homage to Chuck D and Public Enemy, who inspired the record to be "three-dimensional". The song features a sample of Mario Savio's "Bodies upon the gears" speech.[10] The tracks on record were exhibited at a 3-D Laser Exhibition at The Music Box in Hollywood on September 7.[22] On September 8, 2010, the band further debuted two more tracks "Waiting for the End" and "Blackout" on their Myspace Page.[23] The band, on their official website declared the "Full Experience Myspace Premiere" of the album on September 10.[24] During the Japanese release of the album on September 15, 2010, Warner Music Japan announced that the song "The Catalyst" will be the official theme song of Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme Vs..[25]
Linkin Park has released another video game called Linkin Park Revenge, which features four new songs from the album as well as six songs from previous albums. The music video for "Waiting for the End" premiered on October 8, 2010 and was also directed by Joe Hahn.[26] The song "Wretches and Kings" is featured in the trailer for the video game EA Sports MMA.
Six songs from the album ("Blackout", "Burning in the Skies", "The Catalyst", "The Messenger", "Waiting for the End", and "Wretches and Kings") are available as downloadable content in the "Linkin Park Track Pack" for the rhythm video game Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock. The track pack was released on October 19, 2010 on the PlayStation Store, Xbox Live Marketplace, and Wii Shop Channel. In addition, for those who purchased Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock from Amazon.com between October 17 and October 23, they received a copy of A Thousand Suns. Three songs will also be remixed and released as downloadable content for the rhythm video game DJ Hero 2 in the winter (2010).[27]
Reception
Commercial
The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 241,000 copies,[28] beating out Trey Songz's Passion, Pain & Pleasure by 1,000 sales (Nielsen SoundScan).[29] In the second week, the album slid to number three with 70,000 copies.[30] The album debuted at number two in the UK with sales of 46,711, behind The Script's album Science & Faith, which sold 70,816.[31] In Canada, the album peaked at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart with 23,000 copies sold.[32]
Critical
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [33] |
Artistdirect | [34] |
BBC Music | (mixed)[35] |
Entertainment Weekly | (B)[36] |
Kerrang! | [37] |
New York Daily News | [38] |
Rock Sound | (7/10)[39] |
Rolling Stone | [40] |
Spin | (6/10)[41] |
Sputnikmusic | [42] |
A Thousand Suns has received mixed reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 67 based on 11 reviews.[43]
Rick Florino of Artistdirect gave the album five stars out of five, saying that "after A Thousand Suns, all rock 'n' roll will revolve around Linkin Park" and credited Linkin Park for creating their own genre.[34] Ian Winwood with Kerrang! gave it an "excellent" rating, saying that it "can only be best described as a political album".[37] He praised the writing of the songs, saying that "These are songs that have been constructed as much as they've been written" and said that its closest comparison was Public Enemy's 1990 album, Fear of a Black Planet.[37] Dave de Sylvia with Sputnikmusic called it "an extremely well-crafted rock album," saying it was somewhat better than its predecessor Minutes to Midnight (2007), but doesn't live up to their debut, Hybrid Theory (2000). David Buchanan of Consequence of Sound gave the album a respected 3.5 stars out of five, saying, "Some might argue this new sound is posturing, complete mutation to the point of absurdity; in the band’s associated artwork and videos, evolution has been touted from day one. In essence, Linkin Park has been chasing this all along, and now it has become tangible, complete." [44]
James Montgomery of MTV praised the album for being "sprawling, discordant, ambitious and an all-out game changer" while comparing it with English alternative rock band Radiohead's 2000 album Kid A, but pointed out that A Thousand Suns is more optimistic.[11] Jordy Kasko with Review Rinse Repeat gave it a perfect rating, calling it an "epic quest".[2] He compared it to Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon and Radiohead's Kid A, saying "A Thousand Suns is an ALBUM. It is not a collection of songs. It is not meant to be listened to as such. The band is going so far as to release an iTunes version that is one track, 47 minutes and 56 seconds long. This is no more an 'album' by conventional standards than Dark Side of the Moon or Kid A are. Sure, there are identifiable songs, but to understand or to appreciate any of them you must take them in the context of the entire album".[2]
Mikael Wood with Spin gave it six out of ten stars, saying that it "contains plenty of aggressively arty material" and called the track "The Messenger" the "most unexpected track on the boldly conceived A Thousand Sun".[41] Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly gave the album a B rating and said "on A Thousand Suns at times the band's odd mélange of industrial grind, hip-hop swagger, and teenage-wasteland angst feels jarring".[36] Jody Rosen with Rolling Stone gave it three out of five stars, saying they sounded like "a killer Linkin Park tribute band".[40] Australia's Music Network magazine gave the album a mixed review, stating it's "a radical shift for the band, but it’s also a very uneven one... while there's some commanding moments ('The Catalyst,' 'Wretches and Kings'), many of the tracks feel like experiments rather than fully-formed songs".[1]
However, Johnny Firecloud with Antiquiet condemned the album, referring to it as a "melodramatic farce", and said it was a "mechanized mess of sentimentality [...] the 15 track collection is entirely unconvincing as a call to action for uprising and activism".[45] Stephen Thomas Erlewine with Allmusic commented saying that the album was a "clear continuation" of its predecessor, referring to it as "recycled ideas" and saying that "the problem is, the subdued rhythms, riffs and raps of A Thousand Suns winds up monochromatic".[33] Jim Farber of The New York Daily News gave the album one star of five, stating that "no fewer than 15 cuts crowd the tight 47-minute length of the CD, many of them fragments or, more accurately, sonic non sequiturs".[38] Jamie Primack of The Badger Herald wrote that "there are at least five filler tracks that contain nothing more than noise and sound bites [....] the full-length songs aren’t particularly daring or interesting".[46]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Linkin Park, except where noted
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "The Requiem" | 2:01 |
2. | "The Radiance" (featuring an interview portion of J. Robert Oppenheimer) | 0:57 |
3. | "Burning in the Skies" | 4:13 |
4. | "Empty Spaces" | 0:18 |
5. | "When They Come for Me" | 4:53 |
6. | "Robot Boy" | 4:29 |
7. | "Jornada del Muerto" | 1:34 |
8. | "Waiting for the End" | 3:51 |
9. | "Blackout" | 4:39 |
10. | "Wretches and Kings" (featuring an interview portion of Mario Savio) | 4:10 |
11. | "Wisdom, Justice, and Love" (Linkin Park, Martin Luther King, Jr.) | 1:38 |
12. | "Iridescent" | 4:56 |
13. | "Fallout" | 1:23 |
14. | "The Catalyst" | 5:42 |
15. | "The Messenger" | 3:01 |
No. | Title | Length |
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16. | "The Catalyst" (NoBraiN remix) | 4:22 |
No. | Title | Length |
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16. | "The Catalyst" (music video, iTunes Deluxe Edition only) | 4:42 |
17. | "Blackbirds" (from the 8-Bit Rebellion! App) | 3:21 |
No. | Title | Length |
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16. | "New Divide" (live at Terra Vibe Park, Athens, Greece, July 21, 2009) | 4:54 |
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Meeting of A Thousand Suns" (making of the album documentary) | 29:46 |
Personnel
Linkin Park
Main production
Features
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Charts and certifications
Chart procession
Order of precedence | ||
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Preceded by | Australian Albums Chart number-one album September 20, 2010 - October 17, 2010 |
Succeeded by |
Austrian Albums Chart number-one album September 24, 2010 - October 7, 2010 |
Succeeded by Meine Zeit by Rainhard Fendrich
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European Albums Chart number-one album October 2, 2010 - October 7, 2010 |
Succeeded by | |
Preceded by | New Zealand Albums Chart number-one album September 20, 2010 - September 26, 2010 |
Succeeded by |
Preceded by The Greatest Hits Sessions by Bellamy Brothers & Gölä
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Swiss Albums Chart number-one album September 26, 2010 - October 1, 2010 |
Succeeded by The Greatest Hits Sessions by Bellamy Brothers & Gölä
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Preceded by | German Albums Chart number-one album September 24, 2010 - October 7, 2010 |
Succeeded by Rock Symphonies by David Garrett
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Preceded by | US Billboard 200 number-one album October 2, 2010 - October 8, 2010 |
Succeeded by |
Preceded by | Canadian Albums Chart number-one album October 2, 2010 - October 8, 2010 |
Succeeded by A Place Called Love by Johnny Reid
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Preceded by | Czech Republic Albums Chart number-one album October 2, 2010 - October 8, 2010 |
Succeeded by Není na co čekat by Chinaski
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Preceded by O Melhor De Beto by Beto
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Portuguese Albums Chart number-one album October 2, 2010 - October 8, 2010 |
Succeeded by O Melhor De Beto by Beto
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Release history
Region | Date | Format(s) |
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Australia[83] | September 8, 2010 | Digital download, CD, LP, DVD |
Austria[84] | ||
Belgium[85] | ||
Canada[86] | ||
Denmark[87] | ||
Finland[88] | ||
France[89] | ||
Germany[90] | ||
Greece[91] | ||
Ireland[92] | ||
Italy[93] | ||
Luxembourg[94] | ||
Mexico[95] | ||
Netherlands[96] | ||
New Zealand[97] | ||
Norway[98] | ||
Portugal[99] | ||
Spain[100] | ||
Sweden[101] | ||
Switzerland[102] | ||
United Kingdom[103] | ||
Hungary[104] | September 9, 2010 | |
Poland[105] | September 13, 2010 | |
Brazil[106] | September 14, 2010 | |
United States[107] | ||
Japan[108][109][110] | September 15, 2010 September 29, 2010 November 24, 2010 |
Digital download, CD, CD+DVD Gunpla 30th Edition |
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