Post Traumatic
2018 album by Mike Shinoda
Post Traumatic is the debut solo studio album by American musician Mike Shinoda. It was released on June 15, 2018, through Warner Bros. Records and Shinoda's label Machine Shop Records. Issued under Shinoda's own name instead of the Fort Minor moniker, it is his second studio album outside of his band Linkin Park after Fort Minor's The Rising Tied (2005).
The album was announced on March 29, 2018, along with the release of two songs to promote the album, "Crossing a Line" and "Nothing Makes Sense Anymore". "Crossing a Line" and "Make It Up as I Go" were issued to radio stations as the album's two official singles.
Shinoda himself served as the primary producer of the album but with additional production on a few tracks by BASECAMP, Andrew Dawson, and Boonn. Linkin Park guitarist Brad Delson, Blackbear, K.Flay, Deftones lead vocalist Chino Moreno, Machine Gun Kelly, Ross Golan, Kevin Hissink (Boonn), and Grandson helped write some songs, though most were written by Shinoda.
The album contains content Shinoda recorded mostly by himself but additional instruments were played by Linkin Park drummer Rob Bourdon, Darren King, and Boonn with the content having been written by Shinoda after the death of his Linkin Park bandmate Chester Bennington on July 20, 2017. The three songs from the Post Traumatic EP are included as the first three songs of this album.
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