Recharged (album)
Linkin Park's second remix album, featuring Living Things remixes.
Recharged, written in all capital letters, is Linkin Park's second remix album. It came out on October 29, 2013, via Warner Bros. Records and Machine Shop Recordings. Rick Rubin and Mike Shinoda handled all production. The album features remixes of ten tracks from the band's fifth studio album Living Things, plus a new song and its remix with Steve Aoki. Critical reception was mixed.
Quick Facts
- Artist
- Linkin Park
- Released
- October 29, 2013
- Recorded
- 2011–2013
- Genre
- Dubstep
- EDM
- drum and bass
- hip hop
- Length
- 68:43
- Label
- Warner Bros., Machine Shop
- Producer
- Rick Rubin, Mike Shinoda (original recordings)
Facts from the source article.
Track listing
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Light That Never Comes (Steve Aoki remix) | 3:49 |
| 2 | Castle of Glass (M. Shinoda remix) | 6:20 |
| 3 | Lost in the Echo (KillSonik remix) | 5:09 |
| 4 | Victimized (M. Shinoda remix) | 3:00 |
| 5 | I'll Be Gone (Vice remix; featuring Pusha T) | 4:00 |
| 6 | Lies Greed Misery (Dirtyphonics remix) | 4:50 |
| 7 | Roads Untraveled (Rad Omen Remix; featuring Bun B) | 5:28 |
| 8 | Powerless (Enferno remix) | 6:07 |
| 9 | Burn It Down (Tom Swoon remix) | 4:46 |
| 10 | Until It Breaks (Datsik remix) | 6:00 |
| 11 | Skin to Bone (Nick Catchdubs Remix) (featuring Cody B. Ware and Ryu) | 3:54 |
| 12 | I'll Be Gone (Schoolboy remix) | 6:11 |
| 13 | Until It Breaks (Money Mark Headphone remix) | 4:29 |
| 14 | A Light That Never Comes (Rick Rubin remix) | 4:40 |
| Total length | 68:43 | |
Track listing from the source article.
Did You Know?
- The album debuted at number ten on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 33,000 copies in the United States.
- By mid-2014, the album had reached 111,000 sales in the US.
- It became the eighth best selling Dance/Electronic Album and twenty-fifth best selling Hard Rock Album.
Background and promotion
Recharged was announced on the band's Facebook page on September 12, 2013, the same day their game LP Recharge was released. The album includes reinterpretations of ten songs from Living Things, plus the new song with Steve Aoki, "A Light That Never Comes" (and a remix of it). Five of the remixes had previously been released as part of a pre-order promotion for Living Things called Living Things Remixed, which gave pre-order customers a remix each month for eight months.
A limited-edition version of the album was made available exclusively from the band's website, containing an interactive 3D sculpture based on the Living Things album artwork, a 48-page art booklet, both Living Things and Recharged albums, and a magnetic stylus to interact with the liquid solution in the sculpture. Pre-orders began on September 16. On September 13, Shinoda posted the track list on Facebook and noted that pre-orders from the band's website would receive an exclusive digital download of Paul van Dyk's remix of "Burn It Down", previously part of Living Things Remixed.
The album could be heard in its entirety on MTV.com as of October 24, 2013, five days before its official release. On January 21, 2014, an EP titled "A Light That Never Comes (Remixes)" was released online.
Critical reception
NME described Recharged as "further proof" that dubstep and EDM is nu metal's successor, characterizing the songs as "nosebleed drum'n'bass, 8-bit blips and oversized dancehall bass" and adding that Rick Rubin's final remix of "A Light That Never Comes" saves the album from disaster. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic gave it 3 out of 5 stars, stating that the album appeals primarily to hardcore fans and is unlikely to convert EDM listeners to Linkin Park.
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