Bingkai Karya – Linkin Park has announced their first-ever greatest hits album, Papercuts (Singles Collection 2000-2023), will be released on April 12, 2024, via Warner Records.
The album will be available on all streaming services and in various physical configurations, including CD, cassette, and double vinyl. Limited edition colored vinyl variants, a Zoetrope picture disc, and black vinyl will also be available.
The tracklist for Papercuts is as follows:
- Crawling
- Faint
- Numb/Encore
- Papercut
- Breaking The Habit
- In The End
- Bleed It Out
- Somewhere I Belong
- Waiting For The End
- Castle Of Glass
- One More Light
- Burn It Down
- What I’ve Done
- QWERTY
- One Step Closer
- New Divide
- Leave Out All The Rest
- Lost
- Numb
- Friendly Fire
In addition to the greatest hits collection, Linkin Park has also released a previously unreleased song, “Friendly Fire.” Recorded during the 2017 sessions for their seventh album One More Light, the song features a stunning vocal performance from Chester Bennington. The official video was directed and edited by longtime collaborator Mark Fiore and features never-before-seen studio and live footage.
“‘Friendly Fire’ has always been one of our favorite songs from One More Light,” said Brad Delson. “There was something about it that felt just shy of the finish line, so we shelved it for another day. As we started looking for unreleased material to include on our greatest hits collection, I was struck by the song’s power – the power of its story, the power of Chester’s vocal, the sonic landscape. It felt closer to finished than we realized at the time.
“We got together and worked on it, filling in a few gaps that for whatever reason didn’t get addressed during the One More Light sessions. I can’t wait for people to hear it. It’s a beautiful, haunting, hopeful, heartbreaking story, and it really hits me hard right now.”
Mike Shinoda added, “In the making of each Linkin Park album, I want to love and believe in each individual song completely. I hope that if any one song were to be heard out in the world, it’s something I can be proud of, and something that takes root in the listener and becomes a part of the energy that connects us.
“Curating the tracks for Papercuts was a joy. Each song in this collection is a single moment in our timeline and an ever-evolving story, both ours and yours. From our first release ‘One Step Closer’ to the new ‘Friendly Fire,’ this tracklist spans the chapters of our journey so far. Thank you for being a part of it. We hope you enjoy Papercuts.”
The release of Papercuts comes on the heels of the band’s successful 2023 Meteora 20th Anniversary Edition, which saw the album reach #1 on Billboard’s Top Hard Rock Albums, Top Rock Albums, Top Catalog Albums, and Vinyl Albums charts. The album’s single “Lost” also became the biggest rock song of 2023, earning the band their first #1 debut on Billboard’s Rock & Alternative Airplay Chart in over a decade.
Papercuts is available for pre-order now!
