Linkin Park Rises From the Ashes With Dark Songs, a Joyful Attitude and a New Singer Who Does Primal Scream Therapy Proud: Concert Review
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Sometimes, when a woman is very unexpectedly put at the top of the ticket, things very unexpectedly go right.
Now, in the course of reviewing Linkin Park‘s first full comeback concert to feature the group’s new female lead singer, I promise not to make too many more electoral comparisons.
It would be a stretch to find too many correlations between what happened with Kamala Harris being abruptly elevated to the head of the Democratic ticket and the rather more elongated process that led to Emily Armstrong being hired into Linkin Park, filling the vocal shoes of the late Chester Bennington.
But the analogy goes at least this far: in both these cases, what might’ve initially seemed like a hail-Mary pass has turned out to feel like an honestly shrewd move.
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