LINKIN PARK: From Zero Vinyl LP (Transparent Petrol)

Say what you want about the discourse, From Zero is Linkin Park doing the only thing that's ever actually worked for them: leaning into the tension between beauty and noise, melody and chaos, and not apologising for any of it. With Emily Armstrong stepping up to the mic and the band writing like they have something to prove again, this is a record that sounds like a band who genuinely needed to make it.

The transparent petrol pressing is the kind of object you keep out of the sleeve just to look at it, refracting light like a puddle in a car park on a Melbourne winter night. Alt rock heads, nu-metal lifers, and anyone who had a Hybrid Theory poster on their wall and still has opinions about the Meteora sequencing will find something worth their time here. This is alternative metal for people who understand that the genre's emotional directness was always its whole point, not a flaw to be embarrassed about.

Vinyl LP on transparent petrol coloured wax. Released 2024 via Warner Records. Alternative rock, alternative metal, hard rock. Origin: USA.

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