Welcome to Band Jury, a SPIN series in which artists defend black sheep albums they feel deserve another listen. These are projects that, for whatever reason (middling sales, negative reviews, a ...
Take their 2014 follow up album, Smoke and Mirrors, which has the Linkin Park-esque hard rock tune “Friction” nestled amidst the huge pop rock anthems. Or Evolve in 2017, which saw Dan Reynolds and co ...
Many others, largely after that chantable single relinquished its mass-media stranglehold, have posed that same “worst-ever” question — just consult Twitter, where variations of SPIN’s saucy headline ...