2020GQ mix: Linkin Park- Iridescent

All of my closest relationships have given me music that I might not have ever discovered, a fact for which I am dearly grateful and indeed something I consider one of the true joys of getting to know someone. My parents, my few intimate relationships, and some of my closest friends have all contributed to this playlist.

My most recent obsession is courtesy of my betrothed- ‘twas largely Helen’s driving playlist that brought me to Linkin Park (for everyone who has worked around me in the last nine months or so and endured endless hours of my very finest Chester Bennington, in part they have Helen to thank).

I love these guys, especially the middle of their catalogue, because they understand in terms that are familiar to me how difficult it can be to be a conscious critter in this world; but also because their songs steer clear of the maudlin and cling to some need to keep fighting and looking for lights at the end of tunnels.

This is one of my favorites- really a redemptive anthem in the face of  an apocalypse. One that’s personal in scale, perhaps, but in a potentially actual apocalypse, everybody is having a bit of a personal one, I think.